Walk 5 – To Stock Wood and return – 2½ miles

This walk offers views behind Gardners Drive and of Stock Wood on the edge of the airfield. In the past, this wood was owned by the Duke of Beaufort and offered a plentiful supply of ash and hazel for the many hurdle makers of Hullavington. 

  1. Starting by Hullavington Garage, go down Frog Lane and take the footpath at its end.  Just before the camp boundary fence, take the wooden kissing gate on your right, into the field Ryelands.  

2. Head for the diagonally opposite corner of the field to cross the ditch and the wooden footbridge past a pond that lies hidden in the undergrowth on your left. Frogspawn has been found here.

  1. On entering the field, follow the line of the hedge on your right, past the metal gate and until you reach the point where the hedge turns to the right and you see the stile in the corner.   
  1. Cross the stile and turn left as you enter this area. Then, keeping to the hedge and deep ditch on your left, proceed over the series of stiles and the footbridge in the far corner of the field.  
  1. Pass the grass-covered hangar on your left and follow the edge of Stock Wood to the end of the very large field where there is a hunting gate into a conservation area. Before Hullavington Airfield was opened in 1937, the path between here and Stanton St Quintin must have been a delightful amble.