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Several parking spaces in the lay-by right at the start of the walk, if they're full there's another lay-by on the other side of the road less than 100m away.
Quite hilly here walking to the folly, nothing too steep though. No stiles, one narrow gate to pass through. Paths are bumpy and boggy mix of muddy gravel and chalk paths.
No water here
No bins here
Apparently the folly was built in 1814 for the Countess of Newburgh's picnic parties! Lots of great walks in and around Slindon as well.
As you head up the pathway out of the car park you can see the folly in the distance on your right. Keep going up the path until about half way up the hill there's a right turn through the fields, take this*. At the end of this path go right, then the path takes you past some farm buildings and the lane to the folly itself is shortly after on your left.
*There are lots of other routes around here which link to Eartham Woods and the Slindon estate too. The pictures here are actually from two different walks I did - if you don't take a right through the fields and carry on up the hill there's some great open woodlands to walk through which you'll see in the photos. I tried to create a loop round to the folly the first time which can be done, but I took a wrong turn so completely missed it, so went back to do the simple route direct to the folly itself which the route map shows.
The walk does goesn't go through, but does past several fields used for grazing which are electric fenced off only so if your dog tends to chase sheep they could easily go through the fence so depends on your dog whether or not this is an off-lead walk or not (it was not for me and Hank!). The paths are also used by horses too.
