Pete's Walks- Goring, Hartslock, Cray's Pond (page 4 of 4)
If you are considering walking this route yourself, please see my disclaimer. You may also like to see these notes about the maps and GPX files.
After about 600 yards I reached a path crossroads in Wroxhills Wood (I seemed to get here sooner than I'd expected), I turned left (there did not seem to be a waymark pointing this way). On reaching the western edge of the wood, the path turned left and ran for several hundred yards between the wood and a fence or hedge, with occasional views on the right towards Goring. On eventually reaching Battle Road, I crossed over and took a path on the other side. This was a rather unattractive path, hemmed in between hedges or trees and, later on, by garden fences on my right.
The path after I turned left in Wroxhills Wood
The path after I turned left in Wroxhills Wood
The path after I turned left in Wroxhills Wood
View right from the path along the edge of Wroxhills Wood
The path along the edge of Wroxhills Wood
View right from the path along the edge of Wroxhills Wood
The path from Battle Road
The path from Battle Road
The path from Battle Road
Eventually the path emerged in a large meadow (or paddock, it sometimes has horses in it). On reaching the other side, the path went through a gate, crossed a track and continued down a short alley. It then crossed another track and went through a hedgerow, beyond which I turned left along a paved path and then continued down a residential street. Where this turned slightly right, where another street came in on the left, I went straight on down another short alley. At its end I turned right along a private drive, which brought me to a road junction. Here I went straight on, over a railway bridge and into the centre of Goring. When I reached some shops, I turned left along an alley that took me to a car park (and toilets). On the other side of the car park, I turned right down a street for a short distance, then turned left into Manor Road. I then just had to follow this road back to where I'd parked.
The path from Battle Road, passing through the meadow or paddock
The first street in Goring
Approaching the centre of Goring, after crossing the railway bridge
Goring after I turned right on leaving the car park
Manor Road, Goring
I've done this walk for several years now (last year I did it in the opposite direction), always doing it at this time of year so that I can see the orchids at Hartslock. I've really enjoyed it each time, and today was no exception (despite the very grey skies!). One year I would like to do a longer walk (Goring is a long way for me to go, for such a relatively short walk), but the advantage of doing this shorter walk is that it gives me time to look for more orchids at a couple of other reserves on my way home (it seems that half the orchid and butterfly species in the UK all appear about now!). It's certainly a very nice route, well worth doing even without looking for the orchids at the nature reserve (which are obviously only there for a few weeks each year).