Take your journey to...

1. Sandleford Warren
2. The Brook and the Woods
3. The Crossing
4. Newtown Churchyard
5. Near Newtown
6. Cowslip's Warren
7. Lanes near Watership Down and Watership weather
8. Nuthanger Farm
9. Watership Down from the North and start of a walk up the down
10. The Pylon Line
11. The North facing escarpment of Watership Down
12. At the Foot of the Hill
13. Climbing the Down
14. Come and Look, you can see the Whole World!
15. On Watership Down
16. The Hanger and the Honeycomb
17. The Beech Hanger from the West
18. Caesar's Belt
19. The Combe where Bigwig met the Fox and Across the Iron Road
20. Efrafa, The Crixa
21. 'You Can't Imagine it Unless You've Been There.'
22. The Iron Road
23. The Arch under the Iron Road
24. The flight to the Test
25. The Plank Bridge
26. The Upper Bridge and the river Test
27. Watership in Winter
28. Watership Down - the parts Adams left out
29. Some more views of near Cowslip's warren
30. The fate of Nuthanger's byre
31. The Watership Gallery - more views of Watership country
32. And finally...

• Martin Rosen's 1978 animated film, including a version of the powerful image used to promote the film as an animated film for adults.
• The Discovery - an extract from fan-fiction sequel to Watership Down that I never finished.
• I've written some essays relating to the book, the film and my experiences with Watership Down. They include some items from my collection - items you won't be able to see anywhere else.
• The genesis of Watership Down and the illustrated edition.
• Some of my copies of Watership Down

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Acknowledgements and Thanks

I created the first version of this website in 1997 for my friend David. He lives in the USA and has never been able to come to the UK to see the real Watership Down. So, I decided to take Watership to him, this website is the result.

I must thank my friend Graham who accompanied me on some of my trips to the Watership Down area. Graham gave me much encouragement and took some wonderful photos himself, some of which I have now added to this website. Many of my best photographs are from a two day trip the weekend before my university final year exams in 1983. That trip started at Efrafa in perfect June weather and ended with us climbing down Watership Down while the thunder built overhead. Later that evening the thunder burst just like on the evening Thlayli escaped from Efrafa.

'The Real Watership Down' Website

All photographs © 1997, Chris Boyce. You may view, download and print these photographs for private or educational use only. They may not be used for any commercial use whatsoever, whether for profit or not, without the written permission of the copyright owner.

Essays © 2004, Chris Boyce.
Website design © 2009, Chris Boyce.