From the car park take the wide gate opposite beside the bungalow’s hedge, following waymarks through to the A417. Turn left and cross the road. In 80yds (73m) take the enclosed path, right beside the driveway to The Rosary, leading into pasture. Continue past ancient oaks; in the second pasture a gate in the far-right corner leads to a cricket pitch. Cross to use the stile at the white sightscreen opposite. Keep ahead over a drive and past two oaks to a far corner stile into Heywood Lane. Turn left, passing Tunnel House. The lane crosses the old canal; continue for 0.5 miles (0.8km) to a stile on the left 100yds (91m) past Upleadon Court’s driveway.

Cross the stile, then head diagonally right over several fields, aiming just right of the white farmhouse. Cross the drive and walk to the far-left field corner, near where three wide, waymarked gates lead to a field-side path. Use the stile just past the copse and head for the distant hillside tin barn at Gold Hill Farm. Pass behind this barn over two stiles, look left for the third, then turn up beside the rail-fence. Keep ahead off the corner to a gate 100yds (91m) left of the cottage.

Turn left on the lane and continue 440yds (400m) to a sharp left bend. Use the way-marked path here (left gate), initially beside woods. Climb a corner stile; then cross the huge field, in line with the right-end of woods on the ridgetop ahead. Search out and cross a railed footbridge below trees; turn left to the nearby field corner and then right up to the top wooded corner. Go left on the woodland track, crossing a rough road. At the far end head half-right down the field to the farm buildings and a lane.

Turn right to the T-junction in 800yds (730m). A waymarked footpath opposite heads for the far-right field corner and through a woodland strip. Beyond, head right of the oak to a footbridge, half-right to another near a pylon, then ahead through a waymarked hedge-gap. Turn left along the field’s far edge. At the corner, look left for a handgate; then far-left of the old orchard for a corner stile. Work half-left to wide gates at a concrete bridge. Cross and advance along the line of trees. Beyond a gate, trees shelter a lake; cut half-right to tall elms, cross the fenced driveway, then another track to reach a road by a spinney.

Use the gates opposite, walk ahead past the hedge-end poplar to find the old canal. Go left to cross a stone bridge over the water. Walk along a nearby grassy strip up the new orchard; then bear right to the tall corner-oak and a stile. Walk to the offset copse corner ahead; here turn right, and in 250yds (228m) use a handgate to reach the nearby village hall. Turn left; then right for the church.