Walk down the High Street and turn right into Bridge Street. Cross the River Arrow and turn right into Kingswood Road. Take the driveway to Newburn Farm.

Go round three sides, then take a gate beyond a corrugated shed and stables into a field. After an area planted with trees (including cherry and ash), when you see a footbridge, move up and left to take a stile to a right-hand field-edge, under huge oak limbs. Walk for over 0.5 miles (800m) through meadows, curving left to a stile and steps, between two houses, down to a road.

Turn right, then right again to cross Hergest Bridge, but after 125yds (114m) take a left fingerpost. Within 100yds (91m) veer right to cross a stile into trees. Out of trees, at a three-pronged waymarker, see a stile on your right, but go beyond it and veer left, to cross the bottom corner of a meadow towards a line of sweet chestnuts. Over a difficult stile, turn right, along an awkward path across a steep, wooded bank. After 325yds (297m), a stile puts you into another meadow. Pass by a bracken bank to cross a footbridge hidden in undergrowth (care needed). Contour to a gate then cross waymarked meadows using a two plank bridge, a double-stiled footbridge and steps down to a metal footbridge.

At a road on a caravan site for seasonal farm workers turn right. After 40yds (37m) find a stile, right. Almost immediately, take a second stile beside a huge oak stump. At a track beside Mahollam Farm bear right, downhill. Do not stay on this green lane, but go right, finding another metal footbridge. Ascend steeply, soon in farmland. Cross fields to a lane, first following a left-hand fieldedge, then cutting a left-hand field corner, then on to a red metal gate. Turn right. At a junction, go left for 325yds (297m), to a gate way-marked ‘Bridleway’. Now go straight up to the ‘423m’ trig point on Hergest Ridge.

Keep ahead for 80yds (73m) and, on seeing a wide path cut through bracken, go through and then around a pool. Turn right. Now stride out for 1.5 miles (2.4km), initially heading for a clump of monkey puzzle trees, ignoring an early left fork. On the road again, when 30yds (27m) beyond a sign proclaiming ‘Kington – the centre for walking’, turn right. Round Haywood Farm, continue down to a cattle grid; cross this. Down this road after 350yds (320m), look for a fingerpost beside the white ‘No. 31’. Go down this field. Turn away from Kington for 120yds (110m), then turn sharply left, following ‘Tatty Moor’. Cross a meadow and school playing fields to the recreation ground. Join Park Avenue, which becomes Mill Street.