Start: Lodge Hill Church. (NP18 3DL) Grid ref. ST 325 913.
(S/E) With your back to the church, follow the fingerpost at the entrance to Lodge Farm along a grass track leading towards a metal kissing gate. Continue along this path towards the Hill Fort (A) until reaching a stile which will take you into an open field.
Enjoy the great views of the River Usk and Newport beyond. Continue across the field to the second stile, then head downhill to Pillmawr Farm. Cross the stile and drop down the steep bank to a metal field gate. Pass through the field gate onto Pillmawr Lane.
(1) Follow a narrow pathway right directly in front of Mount Pleasant cottage, continue over stile and bear right before heading downhill to a stile at the roadside.
(2) Turn right after the stile passing two driveways and look out for a stile on your right. Follow waymarkers along the farm track to a stile at the field boundary. Cross and continue along to the footbridge.
(3) Follow waymarks, keeping North-West, over several fields and footbridges for almost 1.6km, before reaching the farm access road just beyond Park Farm Cottage.
(4)Turn right and continue along the farm track for approximately 400 meters before crossing the stile on your right, heading towards the footbridge and uphill towards the woodland.
(5) Do not cross stile here, but follow waymarks to the right to another stile leading you into the wood, cross here and follow the path through Lodge wood back to the start at Lodge Hill Church.(S/E)