Around the Claydons
Walk along Church Way, past the Winslow road, to the village centre and keep right at the next junction, following Sandhill Road. Pass a row of houses, set back from the road on the right, and swing left just before a brick-and-timber cottage to pass through a kissing gate beside a galvanised gate. Go straight ahead towards a wooden gate and waymarker. Go through it and continue ahead in the field, with the boundary on your right. Make for a gate in the corner and cross the next large field, straight ahead through the middle of it, making for a clump of trees. Veer to the right of the trees and continue ahead with the hedgerow on the left. Turn left onto the road, with Home Farm directly opposite and a cemetery to your left.
Follow the road for 600yds (549m), passing the entrance to Home Farm on the right and a footpath on the left. Go round two bends, then turn left and follow the drive to Claydon House. Nearing the house, bear right at a waymarker post, go right through a gate right by the house, then turn left alongside the house and its ha-ha. Keep the house and the church on your left and continue, with its lakes and parkland over to your right. Cut straight ahead through the park to reach a gate, merge with the drive to Claydon House and follow it out to the road.
Turn right and pass a lay-by. Continue along the roadside until you reach a stile in the left boundary. Head diagonally left across a large field, towards a hedge corner, and then, maintaining the same direction, make for the extreme left corner of Home Wood. Cross a stile into the next field. Veer half left, with the woodland edge on your right, passing left of a small pond to a gap in the hedge with a waymarker post and a plank bridge. Make for a gate and stile ahead and cross a tarmac drive to Muxwell Farm.
Beyond a gate, head diagonally left and look for a waymarker in the line of trees across the pasture. Veer right in the next field, making for a stile and post in the boundary. Walk diagonally right across the field to the far corner, pass through a gap and keep to the right edge of the pasture. Bear right at a gateway to a track and turn left. Walk along to the road and turn right.
Walk through picture-postcard Botolph Claydon and bear left at the junction, following the signs for East Claydon and Winslow. Pass Botolph Farmhouse, the village library and hall, a clocktower and an unusual thatched circular seat built round a tree. Around 50 paces beyond the latter follow the pavement right towards a playground. This path leads back to the church at East Claydon.
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