Leave the car park and head back onto the main road. Go left through a cul-de-sac, then cross the B4025. Follow the pathway into Marsh Lane and continue to a roundabout. Turn right into Avenbury Drive. Go right through a kissing gate before No. 16. Cross the A41 then go through a kissing gate and take the path on the right of a hedge, via a kissing gate. Follow the path over several fields, then go right through a kissing gate into woodland. Follow a path via a kissing gate. Pass farm buildings and leave via three kissing gates. Continue across a paddock via two kissing gates and cross Ravenshaw Lane.

Continue ahead through a kissing gate, walking to the right of a hedge over fields. Go through two further kissing gates, then left through a kissing gate onto a track leading to the canal. Cross a bridge to descend to a tow path. Go left beneath the M42 and Barston Lane. Exit at bridge No. 75, via a stile. Cross a bridge and stile onto a footpath towards Grove Farm. Past the farm, go through a kissing gate and along a driveway. Go left over two stiles, and follow a footpath and lanes, skirting Knowle. Through a gate, the footpath crosses a cul-de-sac onto a path beyond No. 15. At Keepers Cottage, bear right on the lane towards Warwick Road.

Cross the road and follow the footpath towards Longdon Hall. Turn right at a junction, following the hedge towards the golf course. Cross this to reach a kissing gate into Lady Byron Lane. Go left, then right into Browns Lane and right into Smiths Lane. After about 325yds (297m), go right over a stile and footbridge into a garden, then over a stile into farmland. Keep to the right of two fields via a stile, then cross a footbridge over the M42 via two stiles. Continue ahead over a stile and footbridge over the River Blythe. Cross another stile and follow a fenced footpath to the right of a field, then go over stile onto Lovelace Avenue.

Turn left, crossing Widney Manor Road into Widney Lane. Go beneath a railway bridge, turn right into Alderminster Road then left into Libbards Way. Turn right into Fielding Lane and join Solihull Way. Pass Hillfield Hall, cross Alderminster Road and continue ahead on Fielding Lane, which becomes a walking/cycling route. Go beneath the railway bridge towards Church Hill Road. Bear left, then right up the path beside No. 57. At the end of the path turn right, rejoining Church Hill Road. Pass St Alphege’s Church and school.

Turn right to enter Malvern Park on a path between Malvern and Cedarhurst. Turn right before reaching ornate gate piers, passing to the right of tennis courts, then bear left into Malvern Park and follow a tarmac footpath until you come to Parkridge Nature Centre. Pass to the right to reach Brueton Park Lake, then turn left and walk along the lakeside to return to the car park.