Old Sarum Way
A 31-mile long-distance walk in Wiltshire making a circuit of the historic city of Salisbury. With map, statistics, and GPX route file.
Statistics and Files
Grid Ref: SU 126 353
Distance: 31 miles (50 km)
Time: 12–15 hours
Duration: 1–3 days
Ordnance Survey Explorer Maps (1:25,000):
130 Salisbury, Stonehenge, Wilton and Market Lavington
131 Romsey, Andover and Test Valley
Summary
The Old Sarum Way is a long-distance footpath forming a circular route around the historic site of Old Sarum and modern-day Salisbury. Linking with the Avon Valley Path, Clarendon Way, and Monarch’s Way, the walk starts east of Salisbury at Ranger’s Lodge Farm.
It visits Clarendon Palace, Crendle Bottom Copse, Pope’s Bottom, Alderbury, Whaddon, Trafalgar Park, Charlton All Saints, Odstock, Harnham, Old Shaftesbury Drove, Hare Warren, Punch Bowl Bottom, Burcombe, Grim’s Ditch (Heath Wood), South Newton, Newton Barrow, Smithen Down, Lower Woodford, Winterbourne Earls, Cockley Down, and Laverstock Down before returning to Ranger’s Lodge Farm.