Coventry

This walk is a guided tour of Coventry City centre led by Sarah with Eleanor Nesbitt as our guide. The walk will commence at Coventry train station at 13.45 and will take approximately 2 hrs.  The walk will be on flat pavements, and will include Spon St., the Canal Basin, the Guildhall and lots more.

After the walk, some light refreshments then return either from Coventry station or by walking 3 miles through Memorial Park to Tile Hill station.

Dr. Eleanor Nesbitt is an Emeritus Professor in the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit and has devised several walks in Coventry - this one combines parts of her Industrial History trail with part of her Literary Trail that you can view and download at this link. 

This walk starts from car park 12, Kirby Corner Road, Warwick University, CV4 8UW. On leaving the car park onto Kirby Corner Road turn right and walk along the road towards the university entrance, at the roundabout turn left along Gibbet Hill Road, on reaching the next roundabout turn right and walk through a large group of student lodgings with a lake on the left. At the back of the lodgings keep left and make for Cryfield House, just past this look for a signed footpath on the right and take it. Follow this footpath/cycle track until a narrow footbridge with a distinct uphill angle on the right is reached, cross the footbridge into a field and turn left walking along the edge of the field with a hedge on the close left. Follow the hedge to a gate leading onto a lane, cross the lane and proceed down a footpath/cycle track with frequent cattle grids and bridle gates. At the end of the track, go through a narrow tunnel under a disused railway and follow the footpath to the Coventry Road, on reaching the Coventry Road do a hairpin turn to the left and proceed along a track which leads up to the Greenway, a disused railway.