From the car park in the Burton Dassett Hills Country Park, descend the footpath – the Centenary Way – to the right of Bonfire Hill with its conical roofed stone tower (once a windmill, converted to a beacon), and go through a kissing gate onto a track into the village of Northend.

Go right along Malthouse Lane, soon becoming Top Street, in the village for 300yds (274m), then right again just past Pype Hayes house onto a track between gardens. Then, through a kissing gate, follow the footpath with its waymark arrows, heading generally eastwards towards Fenny Compton, crossing a mixture of pasture and cultivated fields via two kissing gates, three stiles and a footbridge.

Enter Fenny Compton through a gate ahead. Follow a hedged path to Grant’s Close and go left into Avon Dassett road. Turn right into Church Street and right onto Dog Lane. Go past Ducketts Cottage and through the gate to the right of the village church. Now bear right and cross over pastureland to a gate in the hedge, onto a road known as The Slade. Go left along this past a large farm barn at the brow of the hill, then right over a footbridge and through a kissing gate into a large cultivated field. Go half left and follow the footpath signs, crossing this field to a second footbridge. Here go left, walk along the field edge, and at the stream bear right alongside to a hedge gap. Cross the field corner and continue beside the hedge. Over a footbridge bear half left to another. At a stile, continue ahead to the crest of Windmill Hill, with views of the windmill at Chesterton and the BT communication tower near Daventry. Descend over farm fields and a hedged footpath into the village of Farnborough, emerging via a hedged path on the main street.

Head right along the main street, and bear right past the public entrance gates to Farnborough Hall. Continue up the road to the left, then along the permissive footpath beside the lake, inside the trees. At the end of the woodland continue on a field-edge permissive path, to emerge back on the lane via a stile. Continue along the road for 400yds (365m), then go right over a stile and across a couple of cultivated fields into pastureland. Descend to the left of a large barn which brings you to Avon Dassett.

Go left past the Roman Catholic church, and in 75yds (69m) go right up Park Close, passing to the right of The Yew Tree pub and into open countryside. Up to the right is the Bitham Hall. The waymarked footpath, the Centenary Way, hugs the top of fields, crossing a large cultivated field, to arrive in Burton Dassett. Pass the church, go through the kissing gate from the churchyard, and turn right, continue up the road to the car park.