Circular walk in Petworth Park taking in the highest point and both ponds

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00:00 I'm in the North car park at Petworth Park and I'm just about to start a walk around

00:04 the deer park that should be about three miles.

00:07 There's going to be a circular walk back here to the car park.

00:11 The trees here are just starting to change colour for the autumn and they're soon going

00:15 to look absolutely beautiful.

00:17 I've literally just left the car park and walked diagonally through the trees to follow

00:23 a grassy path and it's going to be heading uphill here.

00:27 We're just going to follow this grassy path through the trees.

00:32 Here I'm taking the right hand path of these two grass paths you can see ahead of us.

00:38 The views from here as you look back are just wonderful.

00:42 When you get to the cottage you take a left and start following the wide path still going

00:47 uphill.

00:49 Quite soon you're going to turn off the main wide track and go up this grassy path here

00:54 so you get up to the top of the hill.

00:59 It's a bit of a steep climb actually but it's worth it because these views are lovely.

01:06 This is very exciting.

01:31 Way out there in the distance on the hill I can see one of the deer.

01:35 It's a bit of a grey murky day today but it is still seriously fabulous.

01:44 There's a deer in the trees there but I'm keeping well away to just give it space.

01:49 I think it'll be quite happy when I move on in a minute.

01:52 So this is it.

01:53 The highest point of the park.

01:59 I think if you come here in a week or two you're going to get much more colour than

02:10 I'm getting today.

02:12 But let's face it, there's some fabulous trees here.

02:19 Up the other side of the trees we're just continuing to follow the grassy path with

02:23 the wall on our right.

02:27 As we come down here we've arrived at this crossroads of grassy paths.

02:32 Now here I am turning left.

02:36 The path is gently curving downhill through the trees and you follow it down just to the

02:41 right continuing downhill through the trees.

02:45 Again we've got a beautiful view as we head downhill.

02:57 We've reached the stone road.

03:00 Now you can see the lower pond in the distance and a grassy path leading towards it.

03:05 So we're going to head down there.

03:07 Now at the moment I can see there's quite a few deer out there so I'm just going to

03:11 be careful and be kind to them.

03:19 Before you get to the pond you need to turn off to the right and you'll see trees on

03:32 a hill ahead of you.

03:33 I found a fallen tree to sit on and have my lunch and over there behind me in the trees

03:40 there's some deer.

03:41 So it's lovely sitting here just watching them.

03:46 At this point there's a fork in the path and I'm going to take the left path heading up

03:51 to Arbour Hill.

03:54 Again it's very steep but gosh is it worth it.

04:00 You know I never knew that deer sound like pigs.

04:03 They've been very noisy today.

04:10 As you come up and over the hill you'll see a whole bank of trees in the distance.

04:15 Now behind that is the upper lake and although you can't really see it you can certainly

04:21 hear the ducks and geese all on there.

04:27 Keep following the path round with that bank of trees to your right.

04:31 Soon spot on your right this path down towards the trees.

04:35 Now if we head down there we're going to get to the lake and work our way round to the

04:38 boathouse.

04:39 We're just going to turn left and walk round this side of the fence because it isn't going

04:44 to be long before we get to the lake.

04:46 Well here's all the geese we heard.

04:51 If you just pop into the boathouse you'll see there's these lovely stone benches where

04:56 you can sit and watch the world go by.

05:12 This is also our first view of Petworth House.

05:14 You can just see the corner of it over there behind the hill.

05:20 Once you leave the boathouse carry on round the lake until you see a crossroads of grass

05:24 paths.

05:25 Turn left there.

05:28 Then quite quickly at this junction you want to take that grass path on the right which

05:33 is coming up to another junction with a network of paths.

05:37 We're just going to carry straight across.

05:41 We're back up that hill and now we're heading down going towards the lower pond.

05:46 That's where we're going.

05:47 Look out for this path on the right which takes you down to the ponds.

05:52 We'll follow on that one.

05:53 If you make your way round the back of the pond and then you just follow the path all

05:59 the way back to the car park.

06:02 I think it's fair to say there's been just a hint of what's to come for the autumn here

06:07 today.

06:08 But really any time of the year it's wonderful to walk out here and look at the lovely trees.

06:14 Some really really old trees and beautiful trees.

06:17 It's always a joy.

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