From the car park turn left into Margaret Street, right into Weaverhead Lane and left into Copthall Lane, passing the row of cottages called Bridgefoot. After the houses on your left, at a public footpath sign, pass through the gap between trees by the gate into the meadow. Turn right along the grassy path and keep parallel with Copthall Lane on your right. After 400yds (366m) bear left at the yellow waymark through trees, and, keeping the stream to your left, cross a footbridge waymarked Turpin’s Trail. Ignore the second footbridge at right angles, and at the field-edge cross an earth bridge and turn left at the fingerpost. At the next fingerpost turn right.

Maintain direction along the field-edge path. After the spinney on your left, turn left at the waymark over the footbridge and follow another field-edge path, keeping the hedgerow on your left and crossing another footbridge to the B1051, Sampford Road. Turn right, cross the road with care and take the first turning on the left along the farm track and bridleway. In the distance to your left is the spire of St John the Baptist Church. The track zig-zags left and right past Sorrells Farm House and Goldens Farm. At Goldens Farm bear right onto the narrow canopied bridleway between buildings, and later bear right along a field-edge. Turn left outside Goddards Farm and follow the track downhill.

Cross a road to the farm and the adjacent track to follow a fingerpost through the hedge. Turn half left across the field and follow the path, with the River Chelmer on your right, to Walden Road.

At Walden Road turn right across Armitage Bridge and immediately left at the public footpath sign. Follow the field-edge path, with the river on your left, passing conifers. After 300yds (274m), turn left at the waymark concealed in the hedgerows. You are now on the Harcamlow Way. Continue downhill along a driveway leading from the house called Haslemere, and go over a concrete bridge across the river. Ignore paths left and right and continue along the tarmac road, past some elegant modern housing surrounded by rolling countryside.

Continue along Watling Lane, passing 17th-century cottages and Piggot's Mill, to emerge opposite The Swan. Turn left and right into Margaret Street and return to the car park.