Short walk .............

5½ mile Circular Walk from Egdon
by Peter Travis

A pleasant 5½ mile circular walk from Egdon. An easy walk with the opportunity to ramble over open fields and enjoy the beautiful countryside of Worcestershire. If time allows explore White Ladies Aston and visit it's church with interesting spire; dally in the quaint village of Stoulton . The MILLENNIUM WAY section is clearly waymarked with the distinctive green and white circular waymarkers.

 

During the walk, you will follow a section of The Millennium Way which is clearly marked by the green Millennium way waymarkers.

 Turn right out of the car park of The Berkeley Arms to reach the main road. ( A44 )  Turn left up the main road in the direction of Worcester and after approx 100 yards you will see footpath sign left  with the distinctive green Millennium Way waymarker. Take the kissing gate left then go ahead and take mid hedge kissing gate / bridge into field. Stay ahead parallel with power cables to find hedge gap. Take gap, then ahead with hedge left to exit by field corner. Continue to follow track with buildings left. The main track turns left but continue ahead under power cables then turn left to come to gap by power pole leading to drive by red brick building (Kits Kitchen.)  Go left on drive to road. Cross road and keep ahead on bridleway. After 25 paces take signed path 1/2 right up through orchard to come to gap in line of trees. Take gap and stay ahead down field keeping hedge left eventually to find and take brick bridge to gate. Go through gate and across field strip to pass under railway bridge.

     On exiting from railway bridge, take gap left and go 1/4 left up field to far hedge gap. Go through gap where you will find a solitary waymark post, then continue line towards church tower ahead. Go under power lines and take wooden kissing gate ahead leading to driveway past “The Tynings” to arrive at St. Edmund Church. Just as you reach the church go left along waymarked path by side of church to take metal gate into churchyard then exit by further metal gate ahead to take narrow path between hedge and fence. Exit by metal gate and turn left along grassy track between hedges. The track bears left to pass houses on left to reach gap. At gap turn right and continue down field keeping hedge right passing under power lines. On reaching field corner ignore kissing gate right and continue along edge of field with hedge right. At gap ahead, take wooden bridge and stile right to continue across next field to pass though two large metal gates and over stream and into field. Go 1/2 left up field ( if heavily cropped you may need to walk around left edge of field )  to find and cross stile  and then over railway line. ( Take great care here to look and listen for trains.) Cross stile on other side of railway line and bear half right gently up field.

  Halfway across field you will notice a narrow footpath crossing from left to right -  ignore this path and continue across along the same line. Eventually a large farmhouse ( with two chimneys ) comes into view - about 100 yds to left of farmhouse exit from field by gap to road. Cross over road to take footpath opposite through wooden gate.  Go across small field to take second wooden gate then proceed 1/2 left across next field towards gap in hedge. Take gap then turn left on farm track, continuing past waymarker post, passing in front of group of houses ahead to reach the main road.

   Go left on main road for 80 paces then turn right through metal gate into field. Go 1/4 right to take stile ahead. Go though scrub,  ignoring first stile on right, and keeping ahead with wire fence on right to take stile ahead. Continue along field edge with wire fence right. Exit field by top corner stile and go along grassy track and through gate. Proceed across next field, though gate and diagonally left across chicken run  to exit via five bar gate.  Bear left here to cross wooden bridge over brook to metal gate. Go though metal gate and continue directly ahead up field with hedge left to take further gate at top. Go with hedge right and after 250 yds take wide gap into next field and after a short distance take hedge gap to maintain same line but now with hedge left. Proceed gently down field to take large metal gate then continue up farm track. .

   Continue along track, ignoring footpath left. Go past farm buildings left, and past Aston Moat where the track swings left. Go past the 30mph sign until you reach the road. Turn right on road towards the hamlet of White Ladies Aston.  Continue along road past houses, through the Z bend eventually reaching a public footpath on left, Here we join The Millennium Way.  This is situated next to a red brick. Go up this path with wall and hedge R. Leave path when it swings L, but continue with same hedge R to find and cross a corner stile / bridge to field.

 Go left here and through three fields, past house left, eventually arriving at a field corner. At the field corner go 20 paces right and take stile into private garden. Cross garden and exit by stile into smallpaddock. Cross paddock and exit by two fence stiles, then go left to reach metal kissing gate. ( Do not take kissing gate, do not exit field )  Instead, turn your back to the kissing gate and go 3/4 left to pass field corner and take far kissing gate to road. Go right on road and after some 250 paces take gate left into narrow field. Go diagonally half way down field to take gate right into adjacent field. Go diagonally to far corner field stile leading to road. Go left on road to arrive back at The Berkeley Arms pub.

All the paths, bridleways and roads we have used in these instructions are public rights of way as designated on Ordnance Survey maps. Following the instructions and walking tips on this web site in no way constitutes any liability on 41 Club that such routes or tips are safe or suitable.