Sarehole Mill and the River Cole
With your back to the road, cross the car park, bearing left to a footbridge. Keep left in the field, passing Sarehole Mill and its distinctive chimney. Pass a pond, part of the mill, on the left and make for a gate ahead leading out to Wake Green Road. Number 264, the house where Tolkien lived, is diagonally right. It is privately owned and not open to the public. Cross over into Thirlmere Drive and follow the road to Pensby Close. Pass several lock-up garages and turn left just before some flats.
Bear right at a line of bungalows and follow the path into woodland. Ascend a short flight of steps, then down ten steps to turn right over a footbridge. This is Moseley Bog, one of Tolkien’s childhood haunts. Turn immediately left and follow the boardwalk through the wood, keeping to the main path. When it divides, take either route as they rejoin shortly. At the next fork, by a footbridge, keep left. Climb some steps, turn right at the top and follow the woodland path. On reaching a grassy clearing, cross it to another obvious path and keep left. Pass through a small car park to the road and turn left.
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