SO42 7QL SU 3421 0216 This is a good place for easy walking and you can extend a short stroll onto a much longer circular walk all around Beaulieu Heath if you wish. Stockley car
SO42 7QL SU 3421 0216
This is a good place for easy walking and you can extend a short stroll onto a much longer circular walk all around Beaulieu Heath if you wish.
Stockley car park is on the B3055 road between Beaulieu and Brockenhurst. It is on a corner near Stockley Cottage – the lovely residence of a lucky forest keeper!
Now a tranquil spot, this was very busy during World War two as the base to support nearby Beaulieu airfield was built here. Some concrete paths remain and the area has become Roundhill campsite.
Leave the car park and walk on the wide gravel paths through the glades of tree towards the campsite and past the woodland through whcih you can glimpse the cottage. Just before the campsite take the path to the left and from there many tracks lead alongside farmland and onto the heath.
There are tracks in many directions. We like to take a wide circular track right along the side of the farm past the campsite and then turn onto Beaulieu heath – this provides a lovely contrast between woodland and open heath.
Most of the wide tracks will lead you back to the car park . There are great views in all directions and plenty of off lead exercise for dogs outside the season of ground nesting birds – keep your dog on a lead from March to Late July.