(S/E)From the inn, walk through Dunston village to the church. Bear left across the road to the village hall to see the George III statue. Return to St Peter's and go along Vicarage Lane, to the left of the church, and at Back Lane turn left uphill past the cemetery. At a footpath sign bear right through the Nocton Estates farmyard, having with a large building to your left until you reach a new office block. Keep to the right of that along a grass bank (there is a waymark) past a green warehouse to a second waymark. Now cross a site road and past another warehouse and further waymarks, eventually joining a lane at a vehicle barrier.
(1)Follow the lane and at a lodge take the estate road on the right, walking down to a 4-way footpath sign at a junction with a bridleway and a Nocton Trail information board. Turn left into Nocton village arriving opposite the PO/shop. (The carved bench is a few feet to your left.)
(2)Turn right onto The Green to see the "Sundial" and to visit the church, or go along Main Road from the PO corner to the village hall for the Nocton village trail map and directions. (For a shorter route simply return along the bridle path by which you reached Nocton and keep ahead for Dunston.) The main route continues from The Green. Take the footpath on the left just before the "Sundial" which becomes an unsurfaced lane leading to a road.
(3)Cross to the pavement and bear right, then at a left-hand bend re-cross to a footpath sign by a garden. Ignore this and follow the road a little further over the end of Parklands Avenue to a disused lane on the right. Turn in here and at the end go right then left into Habbanya Road. Follow this round to its end, then walk forward to meet a grass footpath. Now join a stream, continue to a footbridge and then turn right.
(4)Go through some woods to emerge near a footbridge. Cross this, bear left at the field corner and when you come to an estate road turn right. Walk through more woods and then follow the road round to the right to reach the 4-way footpath sign seen earlier; turn left there for Dunston.
(5)Enter Dunston near the school; turn left to return to the inn.
