suitable for environs of the Hamble estuary and any places where you would usually go east on the A27 in order to travel west on the M27
Follow your usual route to the Windhover (Tesco's) roundabout on the A27
From Hamble take 2nd exit off roundabout
From Bursledon / across Hamble River (A27) take 3rd exit, sign-posted SWAYTHLING / WEST END / A27
At next roundabout (Thornhill - on our map) take 2nd exit STRAIGHT OVER also signed SWAYTHLING / WEST END / A27 (technically, you should approach in the left-hand lane here, but many drivers use the right-hand one: beware of being "cut up")
2nd LEFT (after approx. 3/4-mile, sign-posted HAREFIELD with HGV-restriction symbol) into Cheriton Avenue, an almost continuously right-curving road, as far as T-junction, facing open wooded area with flats beyond
LEFT into Somerset Avenue. Over slight blind brow, then next RIGHT into Exford Avenue (with Exford Arms on corner)
Burnham Chase is 100 or so yards on LEFT. "The First" is at the top of the hill, on left, behind the "forest" of holly!!