Midhurst Footpath Companions
Walking in Sussex, Hampshire and Surrey.

Stopham Day Walk 20th June 2018

Excellent walk in excellent weather. This was Isabel's walk previously scheduled for January but flooding stopped it happening. After parking in a lane we walked alongside and then crossed the route of the Wey and Arun Canal, now dry, before walking through leafy woods and flourishing fields of the Stopham estate. The Stopham estate has been in the hands of the Barttelot family since 1379. Many members of the family are buried in Stopham Church and commemorated on floor brasses and in the 14th Century (modified in 1853) East window.    We had a very satisfactory lunch in the White Hart adjacent to Stopham Bridge before making a return past the extremely sucessful Coombelands Racing stables with the Toat Monument on a distant hill.  The Toat monument was erected in 1827 to commemorate Samuel Drinkwater, supposedly buried beneath, with his horse.

Toat monument

In need of some TLC!

Barley

Nice sunken lane

Linden tree tea, good for colds and sore throats

Coombelands Stables, run by Guy Harwood's daughter

The White Hart

Stopham Estate

Drinks break by a convenient woodplie

6.8 miles

Sheepwash Farm gate

Barttelot window in Stopham Church

Wey and Arun canal bridge built 1792

Field scabious

Goats beard

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