(S/E) Emerging from the Neville Arms pub car park, turn right into Saltway (B4090) and continue down to go left into Brandheath Lane. You are already on The Millennium Way and will be guided by the distinctive waymarkers.
(1) After 100 yards, just adjacent to the private driveway ahead, turn right down a hidden narrow passage. Go through the metal gate into a paddock and exit into a further paddock and continue ahead to take the kissing gate into a field. Maintain line ahead with hedge and trees left to go under power cables to reach the corner of the field.
(2) Here we leave the Millennium Way and go left, taking the footbridge with wooden rails and metal gates across the ditch and into the field. Stay ahead with trees and fence right to pass through the gap ahead with unused stile adjacent on the right.
Stay ahead to pass through a metal gate at the corner. Continue along a narrow path with fence right and trees left (you have a lovely view of the Malvern Hills on your far right). Emerge onto a grass and gravel track and take a metal gate (or gap as it is usually open) to reach the road (Wood Lane).
(3) Turn right down the road to arrive at crossroads. Here turn left into Cladswell Lane and continue along the gently undulating lane for 1/2 a mile. You will continue on past Lower Cladswell Lane and Cladswell Close, the lane rising to a point where it turns sharp left into Church Lane. Do not turn into Church Lane but continue on the same line into the cul de sac following the public footpath sign (incidentally you are on the Monarch's Way for about a mile).
Stay ahead down the lane between the houses. Where the lane veers right, just by a house called Lambrook, continue straight ahead to take the public footpath signed "Oak Tree Lane" and through a wooden kissing gate ahead. Stay along the footpath to exit by the wooden kissing gate to the road.
Go left for 15 paces and take the wooden kissing gate on right and continue along the path beside a large paddock with a wood and wire fence on left. Emerge onto a driveway by a house called Crantock and, after 15 paces, take a narrow footpath left between fences and laurel then through a wooden kissing gate to reach the main road (A441).
(4) Cross directly over the main road and take way marked bridleway signed Alcester. Stay ahead with pine trees on your left. Soon you will emerge into a field with glorious views ahead. Continue through the gap ahead and gently down field keeping the wood right. Do not be tempted into the woodland, but stay ahead for some while going gently downhill and keeping the wood right and a large lonely oak tree in the field on your left.
At the bottom right corner, under another big oak tree, a narrow path goes off to the right. At this point stay forward for 15 paces ignoring the path and instead turn left in same field to continue along field edge with hedge right. The path weaves a little left and right, but just go along for a while keeping the hedge and trees right.
Eventually, 25 paces after a sharp left at a field corner, you will come to a wide gap on your right marked with wooden posts and rail. Take the gap and go right following around the edge of the field keeping the hedge right.
(5) Shortly you will come to a wooden bridge on your right which crosses a ditch and here you will see the black and white Millennium Way waymarker. Do not cross this wooden bridge, but continue on with the hedge right. You are now back on the Millennium Way and will remain so until the end of the walk. Continue along the edge of this vast field ignoring any gaps right and at the end of the field continue through into the next field with a hedge right.
(6) After 150 paces and 30 paces before the power lines, take a wide gap on right, continuing to maintain the previous direction, passing under power lines, but with a hedge left. Exit the field by a metal gate and cross the driveway to take the metal kissing gate then go ahead up the track.
Go left through metal gate at top of track and then bend right, round the base of field mound on an ill-defined path. Continue steeply uphill, well away from the fence left, high up just to the right of the trees. Take the new metal gate into a short piece of woodland.
Exit woodland by stile ahead (these stiles are high) and go left along the field edge to take a further stile 30 paces to the right of left-hand corner, into woodland again. There is a picnic table off to the right (notice the Millennium Way waymarkers are now green as we are back in Worcestershire).
Exit woodland by a stile and go with hedge right to take another stile to the main road (A441). Cross the road carefully, to arrive back at The Nevill Arms which can provide welcome refreshments inside or outside. (S/E)
