Turning left and keeping to the wire fence along the side of an open field, the path is fairly obvious. You should ignore two wide gaps into fields, the first of which is the route of the old Camp railway and then enter a small wood across a stile (001297). There are Public Footpath discs indicating the route fixed to a tree by the stile. A very short well-trodden path goes through the wood to another stile on the step of which is a Public Footpath disc showing the route forward straight across a field [2] to a stile with three crossbars. The field is very often cultivated. If the crops are short, the stile is easily visible and if the crops are long, there should be a cleared path.
Cross the stile, a wooded boundary and a track before passing through an iron gate (001300) into an open field. Bear slightly left, and looking for a waymark on a post, another iron gate can soon be seen beyond the old railway cutting [3]. Turn right after the gate and bear slightly left of the fence on your right across an open field to bring another iron gate into view. This gate (001302) is in a wire fence along a thin line of trees.
Passing through the gate, the route of the old Camp railway and a wire fence can be seen on the right [4]. Head towards a slight bend in that fence, aiming slightly to the right of a red-roofed house in the distance. Shortly, the farm buildings of Teffont Mill will become visible and the path will converge on to the old railway embankment, which you should keep on the right until a post with a white arrow is reached (001304). Then you should aim to the right of the distant farm buildings until a stile appears to the left of scrub.
The stile is not waymarked but the path leads down to a good footbridge across a stream [5]. Beyond the footbridge there are two other stiles crossing open ground with the River Nadder to the right. The path is quite clear to the Parish boundary, where there is another stile (000306) with yellow Footpath signs on the step. This is the start of a Right of Way around Mill Farm.
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You should then cross a cultivated field, heading towards a post with a waymark on it (it may be a little difficult to spot this at first). It is at 001304 and having reached it, turn right keeping the old railway embankment on your left [4].
As you get near the field boundary, look for an iron gate (001302) and once through it, bear slightly left to cross a field towards another iron gate [3] (001300).
Here, you will once again see the route of the old Camp railway, this time in a cutting which you must cross before turning right towards yet another iron gate. Cross the track and climb a stile. You must now head very slightly left towards the wood on the horizon [2]. The field that you are now in is very often cultivated. If the crops are short, look for a stile at the entrance to the wood. If the crops are long, there should be a cleared path.
Cross the stiles into and out of the small wood (001297) and follow the side of the cultivated field, keeping the fence to your right. Near the corner of the field (998294) is another stile, which you should cross down into a spinney. The path through the spinney should be obvious, although it does get waterlogged when the river level is high.
A stile leads out of the spinney [1] where you may turn right to cross the footbridge over the river and on to the end of the path, on Church Lane (997294). Alternatively, you can turn left, whereupon you are on Path 3.
Page last updated: 2 June 2004 - Corrections to text.