With The Galleon at your back turn left, cross the bridge, go past the small car park and take the waymarked path onto a paved track heading to the right, across open fields, with allotments to your right. As you approach Manor Farm house, veer right and look for a small blue-green gate. Go through it and follow a tree-lined path. The path continues ahead, leaving the trees, and joins a tributary of the Great Ouse (left). Continue ahead at the double gates, signed 'Plant Crossing'.

With the Wolverton Viaduct facing you, turn left across the wooden footbridge following the Ouse Valley/Iron Trunk Aqueduct signs. Continue straight ahead with the River Great Ouse to your right and keep following the path, passing a white footbridge that heads north. The 120-acre (49ha) site area (cordoned off) to your left is former quarry workings, home to an innovative proposal to recreate the lost environment of the area’s 'Floodplain Forest’. It is the first project of its kind in the UK, where planning permission has been granted for mineral extraction specifically to create a new area of floodplain forest with new planting. On the other side of the River Great Ouse, to your right, is Cosgrove Park.

As the caravans and tents of Cosgrove Park end, the Iron Trunk Aqueduct looms into view and the path crosses back over the tributary of the Great Ouse (in summer this may be dry). Climb the steps beside the Iron Trunk Aqueduct up to the Grand Union Canal, with vertiginous views some 40ft (12m) down to the river below. Go back down the steps and squeeze your way through the 'cattle creeps', originally designed to get livestock – and people – from one side of the canal to the other. Continue along the footpath beside the Great Ouse. Soon after passing beneath the aqueduct are two turnings to the left. Ignore these and continue on for around 400yds (366m), then turn left, away from the river.

The path winds to the left, then follows the boundary of the field. At the end of the field turn right through a gap in the trees to continue across the next field towards Wolverton Church. After visiting the church, return to the path by which you entered it, turn right and follow this back to the main road. The Galleon is immediately across the side road, to the left.