Cleobury Country Walks: Walk 12 – The Bransley Twist

Walk directions

1. Start

   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 along road for ¼ mile, Go left into a small industrial estate which includes a vet and right over a stile.

2. Step 2

   Follow the line of the electricity wires across the field to a track between two ponds and over a stile. Go uphill keeping the field edge to your right and right over a stile.

   
   Go diagonally left across a field towards the right of two oak trees and over a stile to a lane. Go over the stile opposite and diagonally right downhill over the next stile.

3. Step 3

   Turn left to follow the field boundary downhill and over a stile. Turn right and continue over a stile, a track, and two more stiles to another track. Turn left down track and then right at a junction of farm tracks to pass the old BARNSLAND farmhouse on your left.

4. Step 4

   Turn right at the next junction of farm tracks passing stiles on either side to a gate into a field. Turn left across field to a hedge line. Keep this on your left heading diagonally across field to a metal gate then a stile into woodland. Bear right downhill to a footbridge over a brook into a field.

5. Step 5

   Go diagonally right up hill, keeping a lone tree well to your left and over a stile towards farm buildings. Continue, keeping farm buildings to your left and left over a stile beyond the last farm building to a lane. Turn right and continue to a T-junction.

6. Step 6

    Turn right and uphill round a right hand bend. Go over a stile on the left, down along the right hand hedge and through a gate at the bottom. Go uphill keeping field edge on the left to a stile onto a lane. Turn left along lane through LOWER & UPPER BRANSLEY.

7. Step 7

   Continue to a main road (A4117). Cross and go through right hand gate opposite. Keep hedge on your left hand side to a gap. Turn left, keeping the hedge on your right over two stiles and onto a lane. Take time to look back at views opening up behind.

   Turn right along lane to go over a stile on the right just before Severn Trent works where the lane bends left. In this field is an outlet for the ELAN VALLEY PIPELINE.

8. Step 8

   Continue through two fields keeping the boundary on your left. Skirt to the right of a barn conversion to a farm track. The official Right of Way goes diagonally right across a field to a stile in the far hedge. However, it is easier and acceptable to walk along the farm track to the lane, turn right for about 50 yds and through a gate on the left.

9. Step 9

   Go diagonally right downhill and through a gate at the bottom. Turn left, through another gate and along tarmac path, uphill past a sports area and through a gate on the left. Continue past the Social Club to a lane at a bend. Walk in the same direction along the lane with playground on your left. Turn right at crossroads down Langland Road, continue downhill and over a road, to take a narrow path back to St. Mary’s Church.