Turn left out of the car park and walk up Widemarsh Street to the Coningsby Hospital Museum, housed in a hospital built in 1614 for ex-servicemen beside a Black Friars’ monastery. Its remains and a preaching cross can be seen in the secluded rose garden behind. Briefly retrace your steps and go left into Coningsby Street. At its end, Canal Road to the left led to the triple canal basin terminus of the Hereford and Gloucester Canal. The route, however, continues to the right along Monkmoor Street and then right again along Commercial Road to a busy junction opposite the Kerry. Cross at the lights.

Briefly detour left along Bath Street to see a remnant of the old city wall opposite the Magistrates’ Court, then return to go down Union Street beside the Kerry pub. Union Street leads to St Peter’s Square. Just to the left along St Owen’s Street is the Town Hall, which was opened in 1904. Turn around and walk back past St Peter’s Church into High Town. A short distance past the Black & White House Museum swing left through an archway down a narrow passage, Capuchin Lane. It leads into Church Street and on to the cathedral, where the famous Mappa Mundi can be seen.

Go left past the cathedral into Castle Street. Approaching Castle House at the end, walk right along a narrow passage which leads past Castle Pool (the last remnant of the city’s defensive moat) to Castle Green. Turn left on a rising path that skirts two sides of the park to a viewpoint overlooking the Wye. Steps left of the belvedere lead down to Victoria Bridge.

On the far bank turn right beside Bishop’s Meadow, continuing beyond to cross St Martin’s Street at the foot of the 15th-century Wye Bridge. It carried all the city’s traffic until Greyfriars Bridge was built in 1966. Carry on beside the river to Hunderton Bridge, constructed in 1854 to carry the railway from Newport and Abergavenny.

Cross here, descending to the riverbank to double back downstream past the Rugby Club. Approaching Hereford Rowing Club, the path leaves the river to skirt the clubhouse. Continue up Greyfriars Avenue. Immediately before the main road, go right along a footpath above the car park. Emerging from a pedestrian subway, glance right through a gateway to see the base of one of the city wall’s towers before turning up steps to cross St Nicholas’s Street.

Continue along Victoria Street beside the old city walls and then turn right into West Street. At the crossroads, go left into Broad Street, heading towards All Saints Church at the top. A popular meeting place, it houses a café and exhibitions while maintaining its original spiritual function. Go right to High Town, taking the first left into Widemarsh Street. Follow it up across a junction with a main road back to the car park.