Begin outside the library walk west, along Victoria Square and then into Ombersley Street East. When it bends go straight on, passing a medical centre. After an underpass proceed to St Nicholas’ Church. Go beyond the churchyard then right, to take another underpass. Turn left. Take the road over the railway to a roundabout, filtering right to go through a third underpass. Walk for 50yds (46m) to a fence corner, near a lamppost. Turn left, marked ‘Cycleway 45’. In 30yds (27m) turn right. At the bottom of this cul-de-sac, Westmead Close, turn left. Soon take Ledwych Close, on the right. At the canal you are effectively out of Droitwich Spa.

Turn left. At the bridge turn right, passing sports facilities and schools. Turn left just beyond the A38 bridge, into Westwood Way. In 110yds (100m) reach the Westwood House slip road. Facing some allotments, take a gate to the left and walk parallel to the allotments. Beyond this woodland, through a kissing gate, reach a driveway. Cross a truly enormous arable field. Over a track and another driveway, finally reach a corner of Nunnery Wood.

Turn sharply right. Electric fencing shepherds you between paddocks before you veer left to walk briefly through Nunnery Wood. (Ignore tracks left.) Aim for two gates beside trees on the skyline. Keep straight on for 0.5 miles (800m), near the Müller Droitwich plant on the left, then curving left past an industrial estate to reach Doverdale Lane.

Turn right. Just before a ‘30’ speed-limit sign, fork left. Cross the A442. Walk through the hamlet of Hampton Lovett to St Mary’s Church. (It is asymmetrical, having a curved Norman column on its left side.) Take the meadow path under the railway. In 140yds (128m), at a footbridge, bear right, along a field-edge. Keep following this general, waymarked line for over 0.5 miles (800m), walking outside the right edge of the trees beside Highstank Pool. Go forward with hedgerow on your left; when it stops abruptly aim across a large field to clip corner greenery – young evergreens shielding a golf tee.

Keeping the same line, cross a vast field (in fact, just more of the same field!), through a kissing gate, a small new metal gate. Now aim slightly left to another metal gate. Follow the road under the A38 into a housing estate. Go forward, then down for about 150yds (137m), to find a tarmac path running between Nos 49 and 53 (51 is hidden). Go through two kissing gates flanking the level crossing. Turn left to The Gardeners Arms. Here turn right over the River Salwarpe, into Vines Park. Veer left to cross the Droitwich Canal. Cross this busy road and walk down the right side of a supermarket to High Street – in front of you is Spats Coffee House. Turn right, passing Tower Hill, then left into St Andrew’s Street and then back to the start of the walk.