Midhurst Footpath Companions
Walking in Sussex, Hampshire and Surrey.

Burton Park walk on 1st April 2024

Jay and Lindsey had organized the walkers to convene at the Cricketers to place their food orders before heading off. 

The first stop was Duncton Mill Fishery and its 4 fishing lakes. The nursery lake was stocked with Trout and recent scrub clearance gave us a good view of the old water wheel. From the fishery we headed up to Fountain Copse and made our way to Burton Park with its 19th century Greek inspired country house and Norman church. Burton Park Estate, which dates from the 13th Century and the Grade 1 listed mansion has a chequered history. Once home to a Baronet, then an MP, it became an Army Camp, a girls school, a police dog-training centre and is now split into flats. Then it was onwards to Burton Mill and Burton Mill pond where we stopped for coffee before completing a loop of the pond and heading back via the West Sussex Literary Trail to the Cricketers where we enjoyed a nice lunch. 

Gathering at The Cricketers. John Wisden, renowned cricketer who launched the Wisden Cricketer's Almanac, purchased the property in 1867 and it was soon renamed The Cricketers

Setting off down the West Sussex Literary Trail

Up hill and down dale

So what is so interesting here at Duncton Mill?

A water wheel of course on a Grade II listed building, circa C18

All we need is a big net!

Magnolia time at Burton Mill

Heading towards Fountains Copse

Aha, I spy Burton House

A very nice block of flats

If you don't walk properly, I'll use my stick on you

That's better

At long last, our coffee stop beside Burton Mill Pond

A brilliant piece of gorse in flower on Welchs Common

Lodge Green, nice 3 bed bungalow for sale in the area, circa £1.4M

More wood anemones on the way back

About 5.7 miles

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