Walk Description: starting from the gym turn right along Old Station Road to the end and then turn right along Meriden Road. When a sharp right hand bend is reached turn left down Belle Vue Terrace, at the end, turn right into a narrow enclosed footpath which leads to a gate leading into a meadow on the left. Walk through the meadow keeping a hedge close on your left, at the end of the meadow go through two gates within 10 yards passing into a cultivated field, still keeping the hedge close on your left go through two fields to a gate leading onto a farm track. Dogleg left and right into a field keeping the hedge close on your right to a stile into the next field. In a short distance you arrive at a stile on your right leading to a lane, cross over onto the lane, turn left and go ahead along the lane to Walsal End, where the lane turns sharp right, go to the left and go straight ahead in front of a group of newly built houses to a gate leading to a wooded area. Go over a stile and through the wooded area, follow a track left and right as you exit the wooded area into a cultivated field, proceed across the middle of the field to a footbridge and then across the middle of two further fields into a field where you need to keep to the edge with a hedge close on your left. In the next field keep the hedge close on your right and proceed to Oak Lane in Barston, turn right along Oak Lane to a T-junction with Barston Lane.
At the junction turn left and walk through the village and out the far end for about 1/2 mile to a footpath signed on the left. Go through a gate onto this footpath, past trees and over a small footbridge to a farm gate, through the farm gate, go along the left-hand side of a field to a stile on the left at the end of a copse. Over the stile turn half right through a cultivated field along the edge of a wood on your right to a clearing at the bottom of a garden, keeping to the right edge, proceed along a river bank to a footbridge over a river and then out onto Bradnocks Marsh Lane.
Turn left along the lane for about 50 yards and then go through a gate on your left opposite to Ferndale Farm into a field and make for the far left corner, past a building on your right and keeping the hedge close on your left proceed to a lane. At the lane cross over, go through a gate into a field and proceed along the edge keeping the fence/hedge close on your left for two fields, then make your way over to the railway on the right and continue to a stile in the far right corner of a field which h leads to a farm track with a rail bridge on your right. Go straight ahead to a path leading to a raised boardwalk, follow the boardwalk to "Packhorse Bridge" and then proceed onto a second boardwalk to a footpath leading to a gate. Go through the gate and go half left to a footpath through some trees to a gate into a cultivated field, follow the path signs through three fields to a lane leading to houses on the edge of Hampton in Arden. Straight ahead a kissing gate leads to a field which when crossed brings you to Marsh Lane, turn left to the corner with Meriden Road, turn right along Meriden Road for about 600 yards to Old Station Road, turn left up Old Station Road to the Gym.
