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Start : Clock tower, Kington (HR5 3BQ) Grid ref. SO 295 565
(D/A) From the clock tower walk along the High St continuing along Duke Street.
(1) Take the first left up Gravel Hill Drive crossing the road and take the public footpath on the right behind the block of flats. At the end of the footpath turn right and after 75m note on your left one of the 'Kington Past' bronze plaques about the horse drawn tram that passed here in the mid 19th century.
(2) At the roundabout take the B4355 towards Titley over the bridge until you come to the penultimate building on the right where you will see a sign post for the Mortimer Trail.
Cross the stile and follow the arrow across the field with the fence line on your right and the old dismantled railway track beyond. Continue to follow the waymarks until the point where the route splits into two options.
(3) The Mortimer Trail leads off to the left but we take the right hand path, climbing over a stile and proceed through a copse coming to a plank over a stream (often dry). At this point you will see Mill Farm with an impressive barn to your left.
Walk towards the stone barn diagonally across the bottom of the field. When you arrive at the wire fence turn right and follow it towards the farmhouse.
(4) In 30m you’ll find an old metal gate and a stile. Climb the stile and continue in the same direction along the rough grassy track, with the tall hedge and the farmhouse on your left (in wet weather this track can get muddy). You will soon reach a steep wooded bank to your left and a marshy flat wooded area on your right.
(5) After 200m you’ll arrive at a gate, with the River Arrow on your right and a stile slightly up to your left. Cross the stile then along the old railway track with the River Arrow on your right.
As you walk across the field you will make out a wooden barrier straight ahead in the trees and a fine stone bridge beyond. As you approach the barrier you should hear the sound of water flowing over a double weir. On reaching the trees these come into view, turn left to the kissing gate in the hedge.
(6) Turn right along the narrow road. On your right is a mill race which you soon cross over. Follow the lane uphill past several cottages for about 800m before the lane enters Lyonshall Park Wood. Soon you will see the Tramway Pool on the right. Beyond this the lane bears right with a metalled track opening on your left.
(7) Take this track and after about 150m you will come to a signpost on the right. Take this path through the woods which follows the route of the old tramway and eventually the path leaves the woods into open fields, with the hedge first on your left and then on your right. To the right are fine views to the east.
(8) You now come to a tarmac lane, follow this past Castle Weir Farm. Look for a stile on the right and bear right up to a gate in the trees. Ahead you will see Lyonshall Church (a useful stopping point) with fine views to the south east.
(9) Take the path down from the church crossing the A44 and proceed up the drive of Lynhales Nursing home. Ignore two walking routes that cross the drive, (however the second is Offa’s Dyke Path and if you detour right onto it you will soon clearly see part of the Dyke) return and carry on until the road bends sharply right by a lake.
(10) Here take the path signposted on the left and follow passing through a gate at the end.
(11) Turn right onto the lane until you reach some farm buildings where you take the path signposted to the left. Following the path for about 300m keeping close to the hedge on the left eventually reaching a gate. You’ll see some farm buildings, aim to the left of these crossing the field towards another gate. You have now picked up Vaughan’s Way which you will follow until you reach the town again.
(12) Take the footpath immediately to the right aiming for the lone tree, continue straight past and on to the left hand corner of the field. Go through the gate and diagonally across the next field aiming for another gate to the right of a pair of brick cottages where you reach a narrow lane.
(13) Cross the lane and continue along the same alignment uphill to a stile in a fence about 100m from the right hand corner of the field. Go over the two stiles to a further stile opposite. Follow the path across Rhodds Wood over the ridge to another stile with great views down into Kington.
Aim straight across the field to a stile and then cross the next field keeping the hedge to the right until you reach a further stile. At this point the views open up across Kington with the hills behind. The footpath now crosses the next field diagonally, aim slightly to the left towards the bend in the hedge line to a stile at the bottom.
(14) Once you have climbed this follow the field keeping the hedge on your right past some cherry orchards in polytunnels. Keep the hedge to the right through the next two fields descending until you finally arrive at a gate to the main road (A44).
(15) Take care when crossing the road and take the footpath to the right which brings you onto a road.
(16) At the T-junction bear left into Headbrook and then Bridge Street and follow the road back into town.:
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