This cross-country footpath runs along the ridge of the down. Gallops for exercising horses can be found both sides of a bridleway called the Wayfarers’ Walk. The area is popular with cyclists and walkers. Watership Down rises steeply on its northern flank, but the slope is much gentler to the south. All of the locations described in the book are real places and it is very easy to navigate the area using the map published in the front of the book.
He told them stories about the rabbits who lived there, which his children encouraged him to write down-and thus, the book was born. Adams lived in the nearby town of Whitchurch and frequently used to walk with his children on the top of Watership Down. Eventually the rabbits reach the top of Watership Down, a large chalk hill in England’s North Hampshire countryside. In the book, a rabbit named Hazel leads a group of his brethren as they travel through dangerous country to escape the encroachment of mankind upon their world. Where better to go to observe rabbits than the location that inspired Richard Adams’ groundbreaking 1972 novel, Watership Down?
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