Cleobury Country Walks: Walk 3 – The Mawley Hall Tour

Walk directions

1. Start

   From the Church, cross the road using the crossing point opposite the Pharmacy. Turn left and then right down Lion Lane and through a kissing gate at the bottom. Go slight left and uphill to a seat at the top of the hill. Pause to look back at the view over the town. Continue in the same direction across a long field to go over a stile.

2. Step 2

   Continue forward and down a narrow field to a stile at the bottom left corner. Then down through trees, over a stile and left to a lane.

3. Step 3

   Turn right along the lane going steeply uphill and after a few minutes walking to a track on the left with Bridleway sign.

   If making a longer walk by combining with another of our leaflets – Over the Water to Worcestershire – this walk is joined at step 4 for the second part of that walk.

4. Step 4

   Go down the bridleway passing through a stable yard then, with views of Mawley Hall to the left, down to the river crossing at LOWER FORGE.

5. Step 5

   Continue over the footbridge (to the right) and along the main track, first flat and then curving left to go uphill. Eventually reach a T-junction with the main access road to MAWLEY HALL.

6. Step 6

   Turn right, with a wonderful view over Cleobury, to a junction of paths. Turn left to go downhill past the old Walled Garden.

7. Step 7

   The track continues winding downhill. As you reach the bottom of the hill, ignore the first track on the left (back along the river) but after about another 100 metres, turn left through trees (path easily missed) to go over the River via a footbridge.

8. Step 8

   Continue over a stile at the far end of the footbridge and uphill away from the river onto a ridge with wonderful views. After passing a seat on your right, take the path which goes diagonally right downhill to the River.

9. Step 9

   Go over a stile and follow the River as it bends to the right and eventually out to tarmac at PINKHAM.

10. Step 10

    Take the path opposite, to the left of the old Inn, through a gate and uphill until it becomes a wider gravel track by a bungalow on the right. Continue forward another 100 metres and turn right down a bridlepath.

11. Step 11

    Go straight across the lane at the bottom, then shortly left down a path alongside a brook, passing the old pumphouse to arrive at the Wells which was once the town’s water supply.

12. Step 12

    Turn left along the main road to return to the church.