Pub walk translations
1.
First at the ‘Empty Bottle’ pub down by the sea. Walk up from the water through some thistles and pick up a path to the street. Follow the street until it reaches Athelstan’s meadow where you continue to a blackthorn tree where three paths meet. The third path leads to Bath, and if you want to visit Bath, follow that path, but otherwise, take the other one which leads forth through heathland to the river which you follow north to its mouth. Go forward past the appletrees until you return back to the ‘Empty Bottle’. Don’t even think about eating their herring broth.
2.
First at the ‘Thirsty Viking’. Turn left out of the pub and after fifty yards cross a stile into a field of green grass. Cross the field onto a way leading down the hill (it can be slippy). After a further sixty yards, you will come to goat ford. Cross goat ford (only if conditions are good if you want your feet to stay dry - the stream can become deep quite quickly on a rainy day). Go through the grey groves and from the grey groves go to long down and along long down into withy grove. At withy grove take the road past Godwig’s house back to the ‘Thirsty Viking’ (good ale).
3.
First at the ‘King’s Head’ (good fish and chips). From the ‘King’s Head’ out through the chester (city) wall to the chalk pits, thence into the old ditch. Along the ditch round the back of the clay pit to the cliff near cow croft and thence to the lych-gate of the church and so back to Winchester city centre.
Note: a 'cipp' in Old English is in fact a rod or stick
4.
First at the ‘White Hart’ Car Park . turn west and follow the way leading to a withy bush . after the busc take a way that shoots downhill . keep to the edge of the hill and round a fish pool to reach raven mere . from raven mere go up by a sloping ledge onto the ridgeway . then along the ridgeway to where there is a sheep wash at Edward’s house . from the sheep wash past the ‘Merry Miller’ (don’t stop unless you’re very thirsty because the beer is not at all nice to drink) . wend your way through a wood then go right ahead across the ford (in wet weather cross by the bridge) to return back to the ‘White Hart’ (stop for a drink as the beer is good here!) .