Description
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If we can access the starting point with public transports, please explain the lines to use and share any useful informations.
(S) From here, describe the instructions to follow from the starting point.
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The plot has to end by the location where the walk finishes. If it is a loop please write (S/E) at the end of the description. If it is a one way route write (E).
Waypoints
- S/E : km 0 - alt. 118 m
- 1 : km 0 - alt. 118 m - Cross over Oldwich Lane West and walk back to Warwick Rd. Continue on past Village Hall carpark to Wheeler Close. Follow round to end and take hiden path next to garages
- 2 : km 0.58 - alt. 120 m - Enter Priests Park wood by waymarker. Heart of England Way. Path not very clear due to fallen trees, but generally going southeast through trees. May find a waymarker to confirm direction
- 3 : km 0.78 - alt. 120 m - Emerge from woods to fields and cross over track. Bear right across field to oak tree in bottom corner
- 4 : km 0.98 - alt. 114 m - Through gate and follow fence/hedge through this field on the left and right hand boundary in next to footbridge in the corner.
- 5 : km 1.31 - alt. 110 m - Over footbridge. Cut across field, bearing left, to line of electricity poles. May have to go round edge of field if crops sown. Continue along edge (going right) till stile found. Over stile
- 6 : km 2.27 - alt. 121 m - Bear left just before houses and continue on path, which eventually goes right, over stile to road (Oldwich Lane East) and turn left
- 7 : km 2.88 - alt. 115 m - At Oldwich House Farm (grade 2, reputed to be ancestral home of the Shakespeare family) bear right along Old Green Lane
- 8 : km 3.16 - alt. 105 m - Over ford
- 9 : km 3.32 - alt. 107 m - Turn left up track after barn
- 10 : km 3.46 - alt. 113 m - Cross Sparrow Cock Lane to stile opposite. Follow hedge on the left, over stile, to 2nd stile, then follow hedge on right
- 11 : km 4.08 - alt. 117 m - At Chadwick Lane, turn right, to go past Chadwick Manor (later 19th century in Jacobean style)
- 12 : km 4.82 - alt. 108 m - Old Green Lane (Millennium Way) comes in on right. Now following Millennium Way
- 13 : km 5.14 - alt. 110 m - Pass a tatty pond on left in garden and turn left up the drive to Park Corner (signpost on right, pointing). Almost immediately bear right to walk along track
- 14 : km 5.65 - alt. 100 m - Bear right with track coming up on left
- 15 : km 5.88 - alt. 100 m - Continue straight on - track on right to farm buildings - through big gate
- 16 : km 6.06 - alt. 100 m - Turn left onto Warwick Road (A4141)
- 17 : km 6.31 - alt. 102 m - Turn right up drive to The Black Boy, B93 0EB
- 18 : km 6.48 - alt. 104 m - Cut through overflow carpark on left down to canal and turn left to walk alongside the Grand Union
- 19 : km 7.06 - alt. 103 m - Under Bakers Lane, bridge 68
- 20 : km 7.25 - alt. 104 m - Pass Haycock Farm, grade 2
- 21 : km 7.73 - alt. 105 m - At bridge 67 (Turnover Bridge) turn left onto track, leading to Netherwood Lane
- 22 : km 8.54 - alt. 106 m - Cross over Arbour Tree Lane
- 23 : km 9.24 - alt. 118 m - Cross over Warwick Rd to Oldwich Lane West catch bus back to Solihull
- S/E : km 9.32 - alt. 118 m
Useful Information
Always stay careful and alert while following a route. Visorando and the author of this walk cannot be held responsible in the event of an accident during this route.
