Energetic. Several ups and downs and lots of stiles.
Note: Due to the terrain, nearly all our walks involve at least one short steep uphill and some stiles. However, you can take it as slowly as you like and the views make it worthwhile.
For more details on this and other walks in Cleobury Mortimer please visit the Cleobury Mortimer Footpath Association website.
From Milson Church, walk back along the road towards Cleobury for about 200 metres to go over a stile on the right. Keep the field boundary on your left and then straight across a farmyard via gates. Once in the field, veer right keeping the field boundary on your right to the far corner of the field to go over a stile.
First keep the field boundary on your left. Once past the corner of the field veer left to the next field boundary and a stile. Go over stile and diagonally right downhill, in direction of brick farmhouse on opposite hillside. At the bottom continue in same direction with brook on left. Follow brook around left bend to footbridge.
Once over footbridge go uphill to the right of large oak tree and over a stile. Forward with hedge on right to another stile onto the road by a farm. Turn right and as the road bears sharp left, go straight on down a farm track for about third of a mile.
After passing a house on the left, go over a cattle grid and steeply downhill to a footpath on the left. Take this path into trees and turn right over a footbridge. Continue in the same direction keeping brook on your right to a large fishing pool. Keep the pool on your left and over a stile at the far end.
Follow the track uphill to the right and through a gate with step at side. Bear left uphill then through an orchard, At the far end go over a stile, along a field, through a gate and left over a stile. Go downhill, always keeping the field edge on your left and out onto the road in Neen Sollars.
Turn right along road for 50mtrs and at sharp right bend, go straight ahead down a track (to Tetshill). Continue until track bends left to go over a bridge. Take stile on the right before the bridge. Go half right to go over next stile in the hedgerow ahead. Go up the steep bank to go over a stile at the top. Go left along field edge and go over a stile to a track.
Turn left along the track and stay on it through a gate then right and downhill with view of STURT FARM to the right Do NOT go across the river via the road bridge but go right off the track to a footbridge (other side of ford) and then left to pick up the track again as it goes uphill.
As the track reaches the brow of a hill and bends left, go through the second gate on the right. Keep the hedge on your right to a gate. Go through this still keeping the hedge on your right to a gate on the right. Go through this and diagonally left on a track to the corner of a wood.
Now follow this track first with the wood on your left then field on either side. Turn right through a gate just after a telephone pole. Keep the hedge on your right to next gate. Keep on track in the same direction passing Wood Farm on your left. Turn right onto gravel track and follow to county road with Lea Farm. Turn left to walk along the lane back to the start about a third of a mile.
