Keeping the church to your left, walk along the road past the phone box and continue for several hundred paces until you reach Home Farm on your left. At the end of its railed garden, take the footpath directly opposite, via the gap in the hedge on your right. Go diagonally downhill across this field, keeping the radio mast on your right-hand side. When you reach the far corner, turn to your right to step over a large drainage pipe into the next field, and walk ahead along the hedge line past a small racetrack. Once you’re past the racetrack, turn half right and walk to the edge of the field, where you will find a gate followed by a plank bridge into the next field. Turn immediately left as far as the corner of the previous field, where the rush-lined drainage ditch takes a sharp right-angled bend, then strike half right across the unmarked open field to the far side. Aim just to the right of a cluster of small trees in the hedge line. Here you cross a hand-railed plank bridge leading on to a grassy track known as Yoakes Lane.

Turn right, ignoring the second plank bridge directly ahead of you. Continue along Yoakes Lane as it winds through the unfenced fields. It is easy to follow. Ahead of you is a line of wind turbines. At the end of Yoakes Lane, pass through the gap beside double metal gates, and walk out towards the A259.

At the main road, walk briefly left along the grass verge, and where you see the sign for the village of Old Romney, cross over (carefully) and take Millbank Lane ahead of you for a few paces. Take the first turn on your left down a narrow hedge-lined alley called Old School Lane, emerging at a junction. The Rose & Crown pub lies immediately to your right. Turn left here and walk past some modern houses, taking the second turning on your right back to the A259. Cross back again and take the lane ahead of you for a few hundred paces. Take the signed track on your right to have a look at St Clement’s Church.

Retrace your steps and continue up Five Vents Lane, bearing left opposite a barn to walk around the curve of a medieval moat. This once protected an ancient manor house but there is no trace of the house now. All that’s left is the semi-circular moat itself, a habitat for water plants, including marsh mallow. Just before you get back to the lane, take the waymarked footpath bearing off to the left of a large drainage ditch. Follow this path through several fields, crossing a couple of footbridges (one is tricky to negotiate) over the ditches until you arrive back at Yoakes Lane. Then cross the second footbridge ahead of you and retrace your steps to Ivychurch.