[1] From the car park on the Green, walk downhill and opposite the road leading past the car park and slightly to the right, go down Daish’s Lane. Turn right at the road and at the bottom of the hill where the road curves right, continue straight across into the Marina. Cross the bridge and the gravel car park to exit onto Embankment Road. (Access is permitted to this private land). Turn left to follow the footway round Bembridge Harbour. Views of the harbour and some interesting houseboats on the left can be had here. Where the road curves right to go uphill, go to the right in front of the Pilot Boat Inn.
Alternatively, after exiting the Marina walk carefully across the busy Embankment Road and slightly to the left, follow the stony allowed access path through the Brading Marshes and past Bembridge Lagoons.
(A) Bembridge Lagoons, is a saline habitat that is home to the rare Bembridge Beetle http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/results.asp?image=047074.
On reaching a T-junction with a wider tract, turn left and then right to follow the path, turning left across a plank bridge before returning to the road. Cross carefully and turn right now on to the main route.
[2] Continue straight ahead along the private road which continues as a footpath at the side of woodland with iron railings to the left. Follow the path where it turns uphill to the road. Turn right along the road, taking care where there is no pavement and where the road turns sharply left, go straight ahead to Bembridge Windmill.
(B) Bembridge Windmill is now owned by the National Trust and was built around 1700. It is also the only surviving windmill of the Isle of Wight and is open to the public for a small fee.
Passing the windmill on your right, go down the track to Steyne Wood. A little way into the wood, take the left fork. Cross straight over the road to where the path continues through trees and beside a campsite. At the next road, go left up the hill for about 100 yards to a path on your right (BB14). Follow this path where it goes right around a large building and after passing along a wooden fence on the left, continue to the Coastal path and turn right to Whitcliff Bay.
[3] Turn right between hedges onto a field with seats and views of Culver Cliff. The path crosses the open area with crazy golf and timber chalets on the right, cross here to the hedge opposite. Turn right alongside the last chalet and in a short distance go left along a narrow path between hedges. When this path reaches a road, go left and in about 100 yards, go right up a rough road, to cross a stile by a stone cottage. The path goes diagonally right across two fields. Near the farm buildings cross the stile to the left, leaving the track, to walk with the hedge on your right, behind Bembridge Farm. Just behind a brick house go over a gate with footboard to the road. Turn left to walk along the road (with care). Just over the brow of the hill, turn right down a shady path to Centurion’s Copse. When you come to a place where the path forks, go left, and in a few yards take the left fork again on BB23 towards Brading. The path goes over a sluice and follows the course of the old sea wall, crossing the River Yar. Passing a house on your right, go through the kissing gate on to the track of the old railway line.
[4] Turn right along a narrow path, pass through the gate and walk along the disused railway line. Continue on the old track to its end by some buildings. Bear slightly left to pass to the left of these buildings and continue along the rough track to the road. Turn right to carefully follow the road back to St. Helens, the green and the car park.