Fovant is a medium-sized village, lying between Salisbury in Wiltshire
and Shaftesbury in Dorset. It is ten miles from each and is approached from the
A 30 road.
There are twenty Rights of Way in the parish and this web site aims to help residents and visitors enjoy the surrounding countryside by guiding them along the paths.
Click on the map to see how the paths look to a bird flying over the nearby Fovant Down.
For more details of the landscape and the paths see the following maps published by Ordnance Survey:
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Type
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Scale
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Sheet Number
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Title
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Landranger
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1:50 000
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184
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Salisbury & The Plain
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Explorer
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1:25 000
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118
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Shaftesbury & Cranborne Chase
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130
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Salisbury & Stonehenge
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143
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Warminster & Trowbridge
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Details of the paths will be found on the following pages. Go to the list of paths and from there to the paths in which you are interested. But first, you may be interested in a few words on maps and the history of some of the paths. You may also like to find more about our village from the Fovant History Interest Group website.
Click on the appropriate link below to move on.
visitors
Page last updated: 2 June 2004 by the Fovant History Interest Group.