The Hayling Billy Trail
Langstone Bridge to Newtown
Ride the length of Hayling Island! This multi-use pathway follows the line of an old railway once used to carry oysters off the island. Most of the route hugs the shoreline of Langstone Harbour and has views over to Portsea Island. If you cycle the entire route, you can add on a short extension to get you to the beach for a swim and an ice-cream!
Route
📏 Distance:
The route is approximately 4.6 miles / 7.4 km each way, which would take a family with children about half an hour way way.
🏔️ Terrain:
Entirely flat terrain. The paths are wide enough to pass other users with ease. The surface from ‘the Applegreen garage’ to ‘the Esso garage’ is surfaced with compacted gravel gravel. The rest of the track has an older surface where you will find some potholes and slightly uneven sections.
🏁 Start / Finish:
Start the route at the small, free car park just after the Langstone Bridge and opposite the Applegreen garage.
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The route finishes at Newtown, but by continuing forward on Staunton Avenue for about half a mile, you can reach the sea front.
🚗 Traffic:
The route is entirely off-road unless you want to get to the sea front, in which case there is half a mile down a residential street.
☕ Refreshments:
Bronte’s trailer cafe is located in the car park at the start, Hayling Billy Bites sell burgers from a trailer near the Esso garage at the end of the surfaced section, and if you turn left when you reach the sea front, you can cycle along the road to Beachlands for ice cream, chips and other seaside fayre.
🚾 Toilets:
There are toilets at the Esso garage.
🚇 Public Transport:
Busses from Havant stop at Northney Road near the start of the route. Havant has a train station served by trains from London and the South Coast.
🪧 Points of interest:
See the old oyster beds, once a thriving industry and now an important habitat for migratory and wading birds.
Enjoy views across to Portsea Island and the iconic Spinnaker Tower.
Look out for WW2 pillboxes.
Extend your journey to the sea front and enjoy the shingle beach.