Start: Bedworth Railway Station (CV12 9SS) Grid ref. SP 362 869
(S/E) From Bedworth Railway Station, turn left and follow the main road (B4029) downhill. Immediately after crossing the canal (A) turn left along the towpath as far as bridge 15 and Marston Junction.
(1) Cross the bridge over the start of the Ashby Canal then immediately turn right along the towpath, with water to your right. Continue approx. 970m to bridge 3.
(2) Just before it, go through a hedge gap on the left, and up and over the bridge. Follow the farm track beyond. When it turns left through a metal gate into a farmyard, keep straight on and cross a stile next to an old gate. Keep straight on towards a modern red brick building and a stile leading onto the road. Be vigilant for traffic.
(3) Turn left for 10 metres then right along the narrow Forders Lane. After a house, keep left then fork right along a dead end road that ends at a lone house. Go through the kissing gate ahead then follow the left edge of a long field gradually uphill to the top left corner.
Go through the gap ahead and keep straight on up the next field to a marker post. Go half left here, aiming for the left end of the line of trees across the top of the field. On reaching them, aim towards the leftmost of the row of houses ahead and a kissing gate that leads directly onto a road.
(4) Turn left along the road. On reaching a mini roundabout turn right and follow the pleasant suburban road. When it turns right, go ahead across a parking area to path starting on the right side of number 25A. Follow this to a road, cross and continue along the path on the other side, which reaches the recreation ground. From the car park, go onto the road (B4029).
(5) Turn right, then after 275m, turn left along Benn Road. Soon fork right and reach a T-junction with Leyland Road. Go left to a path starting just left of number 7B’s garage.
(6) Go through a kissing gate and follow the left edge of the field. About three quarters of the way down, go through a gap on the left and turn right to continue to the field corner. Turn left and walk alongside the railway to reach a bridge.
(7) Turn right and go under the railway to reach a concrete track on the other side. Take about 5 paces right along the drive then turn left and follow a hedge on your left to the next corner. Go straight over a footbridge over a ditch then diagonally right to a double plank bridge over another ditch.
Cross it and go diagonally left across the next field to reach the far hedge by a marker post. Turn left and follow the hedge on your right to a gap in the corner.
(8) Go diagonally right to the far right corner of the next field. Go through a gap and follow the left edge of the next field. Go through a metal kissing gate in the next corner then go diagonally left for 20 metres to a plank bridge and through a gap in the hedge. Go straight ahead, aiming for a house at first, then when getting close to it, go half left to reach a track junction by a marker post. Go straight ahead along a short track.
(9) Take the right fork through a gap in the bank and then walk straight across a grassy strip, and turn right at the way marker. Pass a house on the left then go through a kissing gate into a wood. Keep ahead and left at junction and then right in the corner, following the edge of the wood on your right.
(10) Pass under two sets of electricity wires, then just before a third set go left over a stile. Turn right and continue in your former direction along a concrete track.
(11) At a junction, keep left, now on a slightly larger track that leads all the way to the canal.
(12) Turn right just before the canal bridge and go down onto the towpath. Follow the towpath with the canal to your left. At bridge 14, leave the canal and turn left up the road to Bedworth Railway Station.(S/E)