A Wellow walk
Head out past the church, under a viaduct, and up to pass Wellow Trekking. In another 110yds (100m) a narrow, rutted track starts just above the road. Where it becomes unclear, keep going, to the hedge ahead. The track continues above it, and runs down through a wood. At its foot fork left on the older track, which turns up left to pass under a railway bridge. (Note: no access to this track from the railbed cycleway from Wellow.)
Just before Lower Twinhoe Farm turn left into a signposted green track. At the hilltop the track fades into a field. Bear right, before hilltop houses, to a small gate and then a larger one. Turn right along the farm's driveway to a lane. Turn left, then down right at Middle Twinhoe Farm, and bend left towards Upper Twinhoe. Just before this farm a signed track descends to the right.
After 130yds (119m) turn left through a bridleway gate and along a field top. The path then slants down through scrubby woodland towards Combe Hay. From the wood edge follow the lower edge of a field to a stone bridge into the village. Follow the main lane left, to pass the Manor House.
After the last house of Combe Hay, find a gap in the wall on the left. Fork right, down to the Cam Brook, and follow it to a road bridge (Combe Hay Bridge). Cross it and continue with the stream down on your right through a field and a wood. Follow the stream along another field to a little stream and stile, then along the foot of a short field to a hedge gap.
Don't go through this hedge gap, but turn left up the field-edge to a stile on the right instead. Slant up across the next field to its far top corner and a nettly way between high thorns. At the top of this bear right in a rutted track to a lane. Turn left, up to White Ox Mead Farm, and follow the lane to the right for another 60yds (55m) to a kissing gate on the right. Slant up to a kissing gate, and turn up a tarred track to where it divides near a shed without walls.
Keep ahead on a track along the hill crest. In 0.25 miles (400m) take a waymarked stile on the right. Slant down the field ahead, under power lines, to a stile above its bottom corner. Cross above a hedge corner ahead to a gate just beyond. Down through this, turn left across the field top and down its edge to the street leading into Wellow.
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