On leaving the car park turn left and walk along St George’s Road. Turn left into High Street and head towards Wallingford town centre. Pass the library and Wallingford Museum and keep ahead to the junction with St Martin’s Street and Castle Street. The Town Hall is on the right and the remains of the castle on the left. Continue over the junction and pass Lamb Arcade and The George Hotel. On the right is the spire of St Peter’s Church in Thames Street.

Pass The Boat House and cross the bridge over the Thames. Continue along the road and, about 80yds (73m) beyond the traffic lights, turn right at a bridleway signposted ‘Ridgeway and Grim’s Ditch’. Follow the enclosed track between fences, keeping the river and adjacent meadows to your right. Keep left at a waymark and stay on the bridleway. Cross a footpath and now the woodland gives way to open fields.

On reaching a junction with a concrete farm track, turn right and head towards the buildings of Newnham Farm. Keep left and walk along the track to St Mary’s Church at Newnham Murren. With the church on your right, continue on the tree-lined bridleway. Approaching the A4130, veer right at the ‘cyclists dismount’ sign and follow the pavement along to a bridge over the Thames. Once over the bridge, veer right and follow the tarmac path down the bank to the riverside.

Turn left, soon fenced beside pastures. Note flood levels marked on the side of the 1913 Thames Conservancy house. Pass on through gardens and pass a boathouse. The path becomes a tarmac drive between houses. Just 10yds (9m) beyond a property called The Boathouse turn right through an archway to the road by St Leonard’s Church. Turn right for 400yds (366m), going through a ‘no entry’ sign and following ‘Thames Path’ signs to St Peter’s Street, just before the main road. Turn left here, then left again into Wood Street. After 70yds (64m) turn right into a narrow alleyway called Mousey Lane and make for the Town Hall, turn right along St Martin’s Street then left at the High Street and back to George Street and the start.