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St Catherines Hill Walk

This is just one route up St Catherine’s Hill. It starts and ends at a convenient car park. There are other routes and, once at the summit, the walk can be extended to include the East side of the Hill. The Hill has been in use for 3000 years and the summit with the Miz-maze, the ruined Norman Chapel buried under the Beech trees, and the deep Iron Age ramparts, affords perhaps the best view of Winchester, the Cathedral and St Cross Church, from this side of the valley.
Here are 45 pictures to convince you that the effort is worthwhile.

Car Park by the Itchen Navigation - Garnier Road

1. Car Park

The end of the Itchen Navigation

2. Itchen Navg'n

3. Start here

3. Start here

Tunnel under the disused railway.

4. Tunnel

The first of a pair of kissing gates.

5. Kissing gate 1

Cross over the reclaimed section of By-Pass.

6. By-Pass

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7. View South

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8. View North

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9. Kissing Gate

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10. Trees

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11. The Easy Bit

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12. Level Walk

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13. First Steps

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14. More Steps

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15. Millennium Seat

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16. More Steps

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17. Gentle Incline

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18. Bank

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19. Ditch

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20. Earthworks

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21. Nearly There

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22. The Summit

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23. Beeches

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24. Miz Maze

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25. Shade

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26. Rest

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27. Management

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28. The View

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29. The View

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30. The View

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31. The View

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32. The View

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33. The View

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34. The View

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35. The View

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36. The View

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37. The View

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38. The View

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39. The Way Back

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40. Downhill

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41. Steps

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42. Path

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43. Trees

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44. By Pass

Through the tunnel, to the car, or walk along the route that Keates took into Winchester.

45. Tunnel

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