From the village hall in Lower Brailes, walk down to join the B4035. Turn left to stroll up through the beautiful village for about 0.5 miles (800m), passing The George Hotel, which has always been popular with local ramblers and now houses the village post office.

Turn right and walk down a waymarked public footpath just beyond The George Hotel. This runs beside a small Cotswold dry-stone wall, passing over a low stile, and then through a gate to cross Cow Lane into pastureland via a stile. Continue ahead, and at a footpath junction waymark post continue ahead to a double stile and footbridge in the hedge. Cross them and bear half right to the next stile, then quarter left for two further fields via a stile by a footbridge between them, heading for New Barn Farm. The footpath goes to the left of the farm complex to a gate. Through this, continue alongside the hedge to another gate. Beyond continue half left up the hill, crossing the field to a footbridge and stile. Cross the corner of the next field and continue ahead on the right-hand side of the hedge – there is a good view back over Lower Brailes. Walk up the path, then go through a hedge gap and bear right, walking above the trees surrounding the ruinous Rectory Farm.

Bear right at the end of the trees then half left, and now begin a gentle descent on a farm track, enjoying a wonderful view ahead over the valley as you proceed towards Sutton-under-Brailes. Pass through a field gate, the golf course now to your right, and when you reach the road at the bottom of the hill, turn left and wander through this beautiful Cotswold village, going to the right, past the village green, and heading for a stile to the left-hand side of the parish church and Church Cottage.

Clamber over the stile, then another, to cross an orchard and walk past the church. Go through a kissing gate and head half left across a cultivated field by Church Farm. Go through a kissing gate in the far corner onto a farm lane. Turn right up this track, passing to the right-hand side of Oaken Covert. Continue ahead through a field gate and uphill alongside a post-and-wire fence. Pass through another field gate, and with a hedge on your right you ascend Cherington Hill.

Just past some trees, you reach a junction of public footpaths. Go right through a metal gate and follow a tractor track heading generally eastwards. The route goes to the left-hand side of New House Barn. Continue ahead through a field gate along a track, through another gate, and continue along the top of a farm field, with more good views over the Brailes Valley to the right. At end of the field, go through a gate to descend the hedged track called High Lane, the lower part a deep sunken lane, to reach Tommy’s Turn.

Turn left and walk down the lane, continuing your descent into Henbrook Lane. Soon you will come back out onto the High Street in Lower Brailes (the B4035). Turn right along the road for about 100yds (91m) to return to the village hall on the corner of Castle Hill Lane.