Cleobury Country Walk 9: Hobson’s Choice

Walk directions

1. Step 1

   Go uphill along the high street and left down narrow lane by the Post Office (Eagle Lane). At the end of the Lane, turn left and walk along road about ½ mile, passing a small industrial estate.

2. Step 2

   Continue for another 400 metres to turn left through a gate to follow a waymarked path, diagonally across a field to cross a footbridge. Continue uphill in same direction and through an old gate onto a wide gravel track.

3. Step 3

   Turn left and continue to the top of the hill. Take the track which goes straight ahead downhill and to a stile on the right just before a brick building.

   For the short (2 mile) walk continue down the track taking the left fork to a stile crossing.  Rejoin the longer walk at Step 9 (going over the left hand stile).

4. Step 4

   Turn right over the stile and then straight ahead, keeping the field edge to your left, over a stile in the left hedge. Now in the same direction downhill through a gate and over a stile into woodland. Bear right downhill to a footbridge over a brook into a field.

5. Step 5

   Go diagonally right uphill keeping a lone tree well to your left and over a stile with farm buildings ahead. Continue to the right of the buildings and left to a lane after the last building. Turn left along the lane and at the foot of a hill, left through a gate into a field (fingerpost in hedge).

6. Step 6

   Go across the field and then along a high ridge to a disused stile. Continue forwards to go over a stile to the left of a gate. Now downhill through a gate and pass a brick building on your right.

7. Step 7

   Continue to the bottom of the hill and through a gateway.  Follow the track left and uphill to Barnsland Farm. Veer to the left of the farm track to pass a silo on your right, over a stile, across a farm track and over another stile.

8. Step 8

   Now steeply uphill with a house on your right and the old BARNSLAND farmhouse below. Go over a stile under a large oak tree, across a farm track and over another stile. Cross the corner of a field to another stile onto a track.

9. Step 9

   Go over the stile opposite and forward in same direction. Go over the next stile on the left and uphill with hedge on your right and right over a stile. Continue diagonally left uphill, over a stile and onto a track by a seat.

10. Step 10

    Go straight across, over a stile and diagonally right across field (aim for two telephone poles close together). Go over the stile and left downhill keeping the field boundary on your left.

11. Step 11

    Go over a stile, then along a concrete path between ponds to a field. Go uphill, slightly diagonally right keeping buildings which includes HOBSONS BREWERY on your right to a road where you rejoin the outward route at Step 2.