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Start : The Castle, Donington (RG14 3AA) Grid ref. SU 467688
(S/E) Cross the road (B4494) and go through the gate across the cricket pitch to a gate on the other side.
(1) Turn right on the footpath and follow this forward for about 500yds as it passes the rear of a large house and rises through woods before coming out on a main road B4494 (fast traffic!).
(2) Turn left to the bridge over the bypass.
(3) On the other side of the A34, immediately take an access road on the left. Keep left at the next junction onto a footpath, then follow the path up to the southern gate of Snelsmore Common.
(4) Go left onto the track, then immediately right onto a footpath that enters the woods and descends to Honeybottom.
(5) On reaching a drive, take the bridle path off to the left and follow this for 500yds until you meet a footpath right descending through a field into Bagnor.
(6) Follow this footpath to Bagnor Road.
(7) Turn left along the road past the Blackbird.
(8) After crossing the river, take a footpath through the left-hand hedge and follow the right bank of the river under the Newbury Bypass (A34). Continue forward, passing some modern buildings on the left, and leaving the Tee and the fairway of the golf course on your right until you reach the bridge over the ornamental lake on your left.
(9) Cross this and go past a walled garden on the left, leaving the drive for a footpath going ahead.
(10) Take the first footpath off on the right and follow this for 200yds to the cricket ground.
(1) Re-cross the cricket ground for the pub. (S/E)
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