lat: 50.8544698
lon: -0.9814354
The Hayling Billy
Hayling Billy route sign
Railway Theatre
By train: Trains run frequently to Havant from Portsmouth, Southampton, London Waterloo, Brighton and a number of other stations.
By bus: Stagecoach buses 30 and 31 travel in a circuit around Hayling Island calling at both Beachlands bus station and the old Railway Station. They terminate at Havant bus station. Havant bus station is a five minute walk away from the railway station. These buses also pass Langstone, if you want to start there. For full details see www.traveline.info
By car: There are car parks at Havant Station, Langstone (by the Ship Inn), North Hayling (by the petrol station) and Beachlands.
MUSIC TO GET YOU IN THE MOOD OR TO SING WHILST WALKING Rock Island Line by Lonnie Donnegan
Although an OS map isn’t essential for this route it will help walkers identify features visible from the walk.
Binoculars will help with identification of birds.
The route could also be walked in reverse: take a bus from Havant to South Hayling (Beachlands) and walk back to Havant. This can give the advantage of having the sun on your back and illuminating Langstone Harbour.
WHEELCHAIRS AND TOILETS
The most wheelchair and pushchair friendly part of the walk (as well as being the most scenic) is the part of the walk which goes down the old railway line on Hayling Island itself. The route is a cycle way, but may not be suitable for wheelchairs and prams after periods of heavy rain.
According to RADAR there are wheelchair accessible public toilets at Havant Bus Station. They say there is also an accessible toilet on platform 1 of Havant Station. They say that there are the following wheelchair accessible public toilets on the island.
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