A Boot Up the North Hampshire Downs: 10 Leisure Walks of Discovery

The North Hampshire Downs are quintessential chalk downs. The chalk gives rise to a variety of contrasting landforms including broad rolling downland, deep and shallow valleys, high hills, and ridges with steep scarps in places most notably above the Kennet valley in the very north. The downland itself supports a chalky grassland habitat, beneficial for wild flowers and insects as well as arable agriculture. These walks cover the whole of the North Hampshire Downs, sometimes called the