SITE GUIDE

GRID REF: SZ 639 875 POST CODE: PO35 5PR HOW TO GET THERE: You could begin this walk right outside Brading Station, completing the same circuit for the addition of merely 100m public footpath. The train drops you at Ryde pierhead, where the ferry returns you to Portsmouth Harbour station. Buses serve Bembridge and St Helens WHERE TO PARK: As it’s a circuit, you could park in several places, at the windmill as suggested or on Laundry Lane at SZ 621 883, or in St Helens at SZ 629 884, or even in Bembridge itself, where parking is a bit tricky TERRAIN: More than three miles of public footpath and lane, some cautious road edge. Predominantly flat, often muddy ACCESSIBILITY: The downhill section from the windmill to SZ 630 872 can be thick mud after protracted rain. Take a stick! FACILITIES: Pubs in Bembridge and Brading, one in St Helens, cafés and coffee shops in Bembridge and on St Helens green (the biggest village green in England). Toilets in Bembridge by the fish shop (SZ 643 883) CLUB CONTACTS: IOW Ornithological Society, web: Iowbirds.awardspace.com MAPS: OS Explorer OL29, OS Landranger 196