Perimeter Route South

More than 11,000 men were involved in the British and Polish airborne landings from 17 September at Wolfhoze, Renkum, Ede and Driel. These soon faced heavy German resistance, which grew in strength and intensity every day. The British therefore lost the initiative.
After heavy fighting on 18 and 19 September it had failed to reach the enclosed torps of Lieutenant Colonel John D. Frost at the bridge in Arnhem, the remnants of the 1st Airborne Division retreated to Oosterbeek on 20 September, where the so-called perimeter as a line of defense. A day later Frost's troops had to retreat to Oosterbeek due to lack of supplies and heavy losses - half of the men had been killed or wounded.
This route runs through the park Hartenstein and the Hemelse Berg to the Kerkpad at the floodplains of the Rhine. At the old Dutch Reformed church of Oosterbeek, it goes up again, up the moraine, to the Pieterberg. You walk back to the museum via the crossroads at restaurant Schoonoord.
NB! For the entire story around the perimeter you can also walk the northern part of the route.