Being out and about with your dog is a great bonding experience and provides health benefits for both you and your dog. Dog owners can benefit from improved cardiovascular fitness, lower blood pressure, strengthen muscles and bones and helps decreased stress. Here are some ideas of local places you can go walking with your dog.

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Curbridge Nature Reserve SO31 1BL. - Dogs are welcome at the Mottisfont estate woodlands, Curbridge Nature Reserve, Stockbridge Down and Stockbridge Marsh. We ask that you keep dogs on a short lead at all times while you visit. Curbridge Nature Reserve | Hampshire | National Trust

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Chilling Barn - SO31 9HF - Parking near Solent Breezes. A great walk that can continue up to Meon Shore/Titchfield Haven.

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Coldeast Park - SO31 7BH  - Near Holly Hill Leisure Centre. Playing fields, woods and a pond. Has a mobile cafe outside Holly hill leisure centre or Coldeast mansion.

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Hamble Airfield - SO31 4RN Starting on a recreation ground, there are many paths to take.

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Hamble Common and Shore – SO31 4QG. A good woodland and open common walk through to the beach.

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Hamble River Country Park – SO31 1BH​​​​​​​​​. Parking, woodland area leading to the river. Also benefits from a dedicated dog field. cafe on site. River Hamble Country Park | Hampshire County Council (hants.gov.uk)

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Hamble River Towpath – walking along the river Hamble between Swanwick and Warsash.​

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Holly Hill – SO31 7BH - Car park, woodland walk, leading to the 

towpath. Holly Hill Woodland Park (fareham.gov.uk)

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Hook Common & Warsash Common - SO31 9SB​. Great starter point, leading on to may great walks, hamble towpath etc

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Itchen Valley Country Park – SO30 3HQ. car parking, woodland and fields.

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Manor Farm – SO31 1BH. Open fields, woodland and the river with nice creeks when tide is in.

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Meon Valley Trail - PO17 5PX. This is a footpath on the former Fareham to Alton railway line

River Itchen – SO50 6LA 

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Royal Victoria Country Park - SO31 5GA. Parking, woodland, fields and beach and shore. Royal Victoria Country Park | Hampshire County Council (hants.gov.uk)

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Swanwick Lakes - SO31 7AY . The reserve is located just off Swanwick Lane in Swanwick, about 2 miles from Bursledon and 7 miles from Fareham. Car park. keep dogs on a lead.

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Southsea Beach – PO4 0SP . parking, coastal walk.

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Telegraph Woods – SO30 3EY Good woodland walk near the cricket grounds in Hedge End.

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Thatcher's Copse – PO14 4HH

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Titchfield Canal – PO14 4EA. A great walk from the village down to Titchfield Haven and the shore at Hill Head

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Warsash Shore - SO31 9FZ ​. shore walks, leading on from the Warsash common.

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Westwood Nature Reserve – SO19 9JU. Woodland and heathland walking near Weston Shore. Parking at the Shore.

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Whiteley Woods – PO15 7FL ​​​​​. 

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Wickham Common - PO17 6JE - Just outside Wickham and adjacent to the Forest of Bere this is a shorter walk