- START GR 872109car park on St Roche’s Hill.
- From the car park entrance, ignore Monarch’s Way and bear left on a track. Follow the edge of a field to a gate then trend left to another gate keeping straight on to meet the A286 at (851108)
- Turn right and immediately left onto a lane. Follow for 1km to the B2141. Turn right and immediately left, climbing up to a saddle. Keep straight on and descend before trending right and climbing back up round the woods to a junction at (824098)
- Turn right. From here keep to the track which contours past the trig point at (824112). Bear left after the trig point forking right after 800m to a poorly defined junction at (818129). Turn sharp right and follow the bridleway to the B2141 at Chilgrove. Turn right for 400m then left and keep straight on to x-roads at (840138)
- Turn left keeping straight on to a track climbing steadily in Venus Wood. At the top turn right and fork right again onto a bridleway leading to the A286 at (874154). Turn right for 300m then left onto a track. Zig-zag up then take the bridleway which forks right to Broadham House. Climb up the faint track across the field to a junction of four tracks.
- Ignore the tracks going left & right and descend through some trees to meet a track which leads almost due south to Charlton. Go straight across past the Red Lion and climb up towards the race course. Turn right at the top and next left to reach the car park and the finish.
OS Landranger Map 197 Chichester & The South Downs
Mainly quiet roads and forest tracks with some singletrack.
South Downs 5 - 27km—Medium -
The site for off-road cycle routes
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