Walkers are Welcome – Launch Bus Walk 4

Whitchurch Walkers are Welcome are delighted to announce an addition to their popular set of bus walks, with the launch of Bus Walk 4, a 5 mile walk connecting Overton and Whitchurch via The Harroway.

 

The Harroway, or ‘Old Way’ in Old English, is an ancient (chalk) trackway thought to be at least 5,000 years old and crosses the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty just to the north of Overton and Whitchurch.

From the early Middle Ages through to the 19th century, the pathway served as a drove road to the prosperous market town of Andover and the famous Weyhill Fair; from here the path continued over the open expanse of Salisbury Plain and onto Stonehenge and ultimately the Devon coast.

 

Sections of the original ‘Old’ road have been lost under modern development, with the path nowadays remembered in modern street names and even in the name of local schools, but Overton and Whitchurch are fortunate to have a long stretch of the original path still intact where you can still literally walk in the footsteps of our ancestors.