After several weeks of strict lockdown measures, the government will allow six people from multiple households to meet, or two households of any size, as long as it is outdoors, such as a private garden.

For people who have been waiting for this moment, it is a great opportunity to catch up on your friends and family outside your home and go for a walk.

Fortunately, Andover and nearby areas have a number of locations to do such memorable trails. Here is a list of beautiful places you can meet your friends at and go for a walk from March 29. If you have already been to these places several times, it is another chance to revisit the memory lane.

But remember, although lockdown rules are eased, please follow social distancing measures, wash your hands with hand sanitiser and wear masks when appropriate.

Kingsclere walk

Kingsclere has varied countryside including open downland, steep slopes, small fields and woodland.

This walk is not for the faint hearted. It has some steep gradients but is worth trying for the beautiful views.

Danebury Hill Fort

Danebury is one of an extensive network of fortified sites across the Hampshire countryside.

The high rampart defences are a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The site is a rich chalk grassland and from the hill fort there are magnificent views including several other hill forts and prehistoric burial mounds.

Evidence suggests that Danebury Iron Age Hill Fort was built 3000 years ago.

It started life as a Late Bronze Age stock enclosure, while the main defences that are now visible were built around 2500 years ago.

The fort remained in use until c.100BC, some 140 years before the Roman invasion of AD43.

Hannington Cottingtons Hill

Hannington is situated high in the North Wessex Downs - an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

A network of public rights of way gives walkers opportunities to explore and enjoy this beautiful landscape.

Spectacular views extend south and west from For Down, and north and south from Michael’s Field.

During most seasons you can see skylarks, yellowhammers and many other wild birds. Fieldfares and redwings are regular visitors in winter.

Longparish Dead Mans Plack

The valley is about half a mile wide, flanked by low ridges, with Harewood Forest to the north and west.

An excellent network of footpaths, including part of the Test Way, links the settlements. The paths provides some memorable views of the old cottages, the landscape and the river.

Livestock graze the low lying fields of the valley. Arable crops such as barley, wheat and oilseed rape are grown on the rising ground. Small spinneys and areas planted provide cover for game birds and other wildlife.

Harewood Forest was a royal hunting forest in Saxon and Norman times. But now the forest is managed for forestry, hunting and wildlife.

Dead Man's Plack itself is a Grade-II listed 19th-century monument erected in the memory Earl Athelwold.

According to legend, Athelwold was killed there in 963 by his rival in love King Edgarto.

Do you have a photo from one of these places or a location we didn't mention here?

From Sandra Peck

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Ladies Walk in February

Caption (When and where was this photo taken?)Ladies Walk February 27th

From Mrs Diane wedge

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These pictures was taken by me when I was having a nice walk with my husband along the path by the range

A pair of ducks

Taken alone the path in the stream

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