Parking
Start and finish at Hockey’s Farm; parking is listed there. The route begins by the farm entrance.
Overview
About Hockey’s Farm Loop
Why go
- Wide heathland views on a compact circuit
- Farm shop and café at the start and finish
Heads up
- Several forks make the route map useful
Map & elevation
The route
Loading the New Forest map
Full mapElevation29–77 m
Plan your hike
Before you go
Parking
Safety
1 active New Forest alert
- CautionNew Forest outdoor-fire restrictionDo not use BBQs, campfires, stoves, outdoor camping equipment or other naked flames on the open Forest.Official details
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
New Forest Tour Guide
Your drive to Hockey’s Farm Loop, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for New Forest National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
Recorded for this area
The Barrow with a Boundary Stone0:00 / 0:30
“On Ibsley Common, a low Bronze Age burial mound acquired another job many centuries later. A square parish boundary stone was set on its top.”
Plays on the road 0.1 km from the trailhead in the Parkwolf New Forest Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- The Croft the Quarry Took
- The School Run Past the Guns
- The Dusk Flock at Blashford
- The King Oak After Its Last Leaf
- 283 audio storiesacross New Forest’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Red Deer, White-tailed Eagle, Harbor Seal, and 13 more
- Works offlinemaps, 70 trails, 48 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
“Fantastic app with many points of information… It’s great to just turn on while you’re driving and it gives you an audio tour of the national Park. We love it!!!!”
Trail guide
Hiking Hockey’s Farm Loop
What the loop coversHockey’s Farm Loop is a 2.
Hockey’s Farm Loop is a 2.5-mile circular walk that starts and finishes at Hockey’s Farm; allow about 1.5 hours. It leaves on a small roadside path, follows Newtown Lane and grassy verges, then opens onto heathland and turns through forest tracks and country paths. Wide views across the heath are the main reward, with a chance of seeing free-roaming animals. It is a compact countryside walk rather than a long route.
Keep the turns straightThe mapped directions bear right at the houses onto Newtown Lane, then take a left at a…
The mapped directions bear right at the houses onto Newtown Lane, then take a left at a substantial junction and another left at the fork near The Huff Duff. Keep left at later forks; turn right by the copse toward the road and return along the roadside path. There are several junctions, so keep the route map handy. The loop is short, but its published grade is moderate; the walk mixes lanes, grassy edges, heath and woodland tracks.
Start and finish at the farmUse Hockey’s Farm for both ends; parking is listed there.
Use Hockey’s Farm for both ends; parking is listed there. The Farmyard Café and shop are beside the route start, making breakfast, lunch or local produce an easy stop before or after. Dogs are welcome on this walk. Keep them under effective control around free-roaming animals and stay on the main tracks.
Wildlife
Wildlife in New Forest
28 sightingsRed DeerMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
10 sightingsWhite-tailed EagleMost seen around 10 AMSighting map
14 sightingsHarbor SealMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
176 sightingsEuropean Fallow DeerMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
93 sightingsWestern Roe DeerMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
54 sightingsMute SwanMost seen around 6 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across New Forest. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
