Access Guide
Summary
- View information about opening hours.
- Amenities in this area include: an adventure playground.
- Additional amenities in this area include: heathland and woodland with two waymarked walking trails and public rights of way.
- The most accessible entrance has step-free level access and bollards.
- This entrance is located in the centre of the site, to the left as you enter the Webb Road Car Park.
- There is not a member of staff available for help and assistance.
- The following are also available: seating, large print information, facilities for assistance dogs, maps, a large map in the car park and an information board in the car park.
- This site is not part of the Sunflower Lanyard Scheme.
Admissions
- At this location the following are free to access for all visitors: Witley and Milford Commons, Lea Coach Road Car Park, and Milford Cemetery Car Park.
- At this location the following areas are free to access for National Trust members but payable for everyone else: Webb Road Car Park.
- Parking is free for National Trust members but chargeable for all other visitors.
- Parking charges apply for non-members (including Blue Badge Holders) at the Webb Road Car Park, with payment by phone or with coins at the meter.
Public Transport
- There is not a bus stop within approximately 150m of the site.
- There are bus stops on both sides of Gasden Lane, at the crossroads with Haslemere Road and Webb Road, approximately 250m from the Webb Road Car Park. Buses have direct services to Guildford and Midhurst.
- The nearest train station is Milford.
- Milford Station is approximately 1.8 miles away. There are direct bus services from here to the nearest bus stop.
- For the latest travel options and information you can plan your travel using Traveline (opens new tab).
Parking (Webb Road)
- This site has a car park.
- The vehicle route from the main road to the car park includes: uneven surfaces and potholes.
- This is an open air car park with a tarmac, loose chippings and compacted gravel surface.
- Parking is free for National Trust members, but charges apply for all other visitors.
- There are clearly presented payment signs.
- Maps and information boards are available.
- There are no Blue Badge parking bays available.
- Obstacles from the car park include: uneven surfaces, loose chippings, slopes/ramps, a lack of pedestrian walkways to cross the car park and bollards with low colour contrast and a visual identification band.
- There are not parent and child parking bays available.
- There is not a designated drop-off point.
Parking (Lea Coach Road)
- This site has a car park.
- The vehicle route from the main road to the car park includes: uneven surfaces and potholes.
- This is an open air car park with a loose chippings, compacted gravel and compacted earth surface.
- Parking is free for all users.
- Maps and information boards are available.
- There are no Blue Badge parking bays available.
- Obstacles from the car park include: uneven surfaces, loose chippings, a lack of pedestrian walkways to cross the car park and bollards with low colour contrast and no visual identification band.
- There are not parent and child parking bays available.
- There is not a designated drop-off point.
Parking (Milford Cemetery)
- This site has a car park.
- The vehicle route from the main road to the car park includes: uneven surfaces and potholes.
- This is an open air car park with a loose chippings, compacted gravel and compacted earth surface.
- Parking is free for all users.
- Maps and information boards are available.
- There are no Blue Badge parking bays available.
- Obstacles from the car park include: uneven surfaces, loose chippings, a lack of pedestrian walkways to cross the car park and bollards with low colour contrast and no visual identification band.
- There are not parent and child parking bays available.
- There is not a designated drop-off point.
Outdoor Spaces
- This information is for the access point located in the centre of the site, to the left as you enter the Webb Road Car Park.
- There is step-free level access into the area.
- The access points to the area are located at the Lea Coach Road and Milford Cemetery car parks, as well as to the left, right and straight ahead as you enter the Webb Road car park.
- There is open access at the surveyed access point.
- The width of the gap is 143cm.
- There are bollards at the access point which have a minimum width of 143cm and are 100cm high.
- The bollards do not contrast visually with the ground.
- The following outdoor facilities are available: a playground, a playground with play equipment, woodland and open countryside.
- The outdoor facilities also include: Heathland.
- The outdoor spaces include the following surfaces: concrete or tarmac, loose chippings, grass, gravel, bonded gravel, compact earth, uncompacted earth, sand and shingle.
- Footpaths are available in all of the outdoor spaces.
- The majority of the paths are not wide enough for wheelchair users.
- There is no step-free level access around the area.
- There are slight ramps/slopes without handrails and steep ramps/slopes without handrails in the main areas.
- There are slight slopes without handrails throughout the site. There are steep slopes leading up to and down from the hill and viewpoint at the southern end of the site, near the Lea Coach Road car park. There is also an additional steep slope by the Canadian War Memorial to the north of the site, by the Milford Cemetery car park.
- There are some bench seats situated along the paths for people to rest.
- The paths have kissing gates which may create obstacles for some users.
- There is a kissing gate to access a wildlife area to the south of the site.
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Playground
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- There is a route around the play equipment which is not firm and even, but is over 150cm wide.
- The play equipment is in easy reach for seated and standing users, and users of different heights.
- The following play experiences are available: climbing, balancing, crawling and social play.
Picnic Area
- The following information describes the picnic area located in the centre of the site, along the path to the left as you enter the Webb Road car park.
- Access into the area is via slight ramps/slopes.
- The slope is over 150cm wide, with no handrails.
- There are bench seats and picnic tables.
- No chairs have armrests on both sides.
- Adapted picnic tables are not available.
- The standard height for the underside of picnic tables is 66cm.
- The following furniture is permanently fixed: all of the chairs and all of the tables.
- There is step-free level access around some of the area.
- The surface in the picnic area is not smooth and even.
- Where the flooring is not smooth or even, this is due to compacted earth and grass.
Hikes and Trails (Heathland Hike)
- The walk is approximately 5 miles.
- From the Webb Road car park, walk back towards the road and take the path to your right, signposted Witley Outdoor Learning Centre. At the forked junction, take the path bearing off to the left through the woods, signposted to the Witley Centre. You will come to an open area – walk around to the left-hand side and then straight ahead, following the pink signs. At the Witley Centre the path turns to the right and continues through mixed woodland. Follow the path marked by the pink signs and at the T-junction turn to your left. At the next T-junction turn left, leaving the nature trail as it goes off to the right. After about 120 yards (110 metres) turn right. You are at the edge of the woodland. At the next junction follow the trail marker up the slope. You then turn right along a bridle path. At the bottom there is an area of grasses and a junction where you turn left to climb up to the ridge. Follow the path to the right along the ridge. The path descends slightly. Carry on along the path, crossing a bridle path and then going through thick woodland. At the junction the path goes to the right. The path comes to a wide open area. On your right side is a fenced-off area. From here the path goes back into woodland away. It bears to the left and then right and then left again to come out on a long straight bridle path. You will come to a crossroads with Webb Road. To continue the trail turn left and then right to enter Milford Common. You will come to a junction with a bridle path. Take the path bearing right at the 2 o'clock position, going up a small slope through woodland. Turn right at the crossroads down the slope. On your left-hand side is a mass of gorse. At the bottom of the slope is a crossroads with a sandstone memorial commemorating the Canadian soldiers who were based here in the First and Second World Wars. Carry on straight ahead from here and continue to follow the pink markers. The path wends its way through bushy areas and open spaces. You will bear to the left across a large open area, before passing again through open woodland. As you come out of the woodland follow the markers taking a sharp right and then left to go past the old baseball ground on your right-hand side. Follow the path here back to the car park.
- The walk is open 24 hours.
- None of the paths are lit at night.
- The route includes the following surfaces: loose chippings, grass, gravel, compacted gravel and mud.
- Some of the route contains steep gradients and very uneven surfaces.
- These are found in the following areas: all along the route (very uneven surfaces). There are steep gradients leading up to and down from the hill at the southern end of the site, as well as by the Canadian War Memorial to the north of the site.
- There are no alternative routes to avoid these areas.
- The route is clearly signposted.
- The route has information boards with large maps and online maps.
- Seating is available on the route.
- There are no toilet facilities along the route.
- On the website, this route is given as being 5 miles long; however, on the large maps in the car parks, it is said to only be 3 miles long.
Hikes and Trails (Nature Trail)
- The walk is approximately 1 mile.
- From the picnic area, turn right along a track through the woods, and head towards a large timber-framed building - The Witley Centre. Continue along this track as it passes The Witley Centre, snaking through woodland until it reaches a fork. Take the right hand path, and follow it through more woodland until it reaches a T-junction. Turn right and follow this new track. Go straight ahead across a clearing, in the direction of the fence line to your left. Follow the waymarkers as the path re-enters low-density woodland and bends to the right. Soon, you will reach a crossroads. Turn right and head across the clearing again; then turn left at the waymarker. Follow the path through scrubland. As you enter a pine forest, turn off along the waymarked path to your right, which brings you back to the picnic area.
- The walk is open 24 hours.
- None of the paths are lit at night.
- The route includes the following surfaces: loose chippings, grass, gravel, compacted gravel and mud.
- Some of the route contains very uneven surfaces.
- These are found in the following areas: all along the route.
- There are no alternative routes to avoid these areas.
- The route is clearly signposted.
- The route has online maps.
- Seating is available on the route.
- There are no toilet facilities along the route.
- There are information boards with large maps showing this route in the car parks, but not along the route itself.