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DIRECTIONS / NOTES
No | Miles | Turn | Directions / Notes |
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1 | 0.058 | Head down the gravel drive called ‘Rotten Row’ | |
2 | 0.119 | Walk through the village Allotments | |
3 | 0.281 | Keep an eye out for a public footpath sign on your right, just a few feet up a driveway | |
4 | 0.321 | Walk through the field (trying to work out what is being grown) | |
5 | 0.478 | Turn right at the bottom of the field | |
6 | 0.869 | Take a slight detour through the field, heading directly for the lock and bridges | |
7 | 2.243 | Keep an eye out for the Leonard Cheshire pink sign on the opposite side of the river | |
8 | 3.027 | Earth Trust | |
9 | 3.534 | Half way, if you need a drink, there is a pub on your right here before you continue | |
10 | 3.720 | Watch for the right turn here. The sign is a little hidden, and it does look like you are walking up someones gravel drive. Just make sure you don’t walk into someones house, and you should be fine | |
11 | 3.841 | Be careful crossing the road. you should be fine, but if you need traffic lights, there are some down the road if you turn right | |
12 | 4.066 | Remember to turn right here, if you reach the fenced science park, you have gone too far | |
13 | 4.307 | Follow the bend of trees to the left | |
14 | 4.582 | Watch out for the huge ‘no trespassing’ sign on the left. Directly on the right, is a public footpath sign into the coppice, take this | |
15 | 5.134 | Another hidden sign on the left, over a small bridge, and into a field | |
16 | 5.326 | Careful here, the path might appear to split a little, keep to the left, and walk along the right hand side of a fenced garden (keeping in parallel with the other path) | |
17 | 5.689 | Turn right at the farmhouse, heading up to a hay store on the hill | |
18 | 6.178 | Turn right onto the road/track at the entrance to the ‘Global Retreat Centre’ | |
19 | 6.881 | The final hidden path on the right, head through here, and keep going until you reach the road | |
20 | 7.196 | Stay on the grass verge, and just walk along to the Arboretum | |
21 | 7.363 | You have made it. If you need some food and/or drink, just opposite is a road, walk along the road for about 10minutes, and you will reach the Seven Stars, which is a community owned pub |