Gough Walk 1 – There was a Crooked Man

Walk directions

1. Start

   Starting at The Red Lion, turn left and go towards Myddle Hill. Straight ahead you will see a path with concrete steps. Go up this, and cross the main Shrewsbury to Ellesmere road  A528.

2. Step 2

   Pass through a kissing gate and cross the first field, passing a pond on your left. Through the next gate turn right and at the small wooded copse go through it then turn right along the road for 50 metres before going sharp left into The Witterage, a green lane.

3. Step 3

   Eventually this becomes a grassy path, ending at a field gate. Here you turn right, following the way-marked path across fields until you enter another green lane.

4. Step 4

   This twists sharply right, then left. On this second corner pass over a stile on your right, and go across the field, aiming for the corner of the next small field that juts out into yours. At the corner bear right, cross a stile into the smaller field then over a further stile, bearing left you come into the road from Myddle to Clive.

5. Step 5

   Here turn left for 150 metres then right onto the footpath again. Cut across the corner of this field, over a stile and go towards some ponds. Through a narrow field, pass a pond on your right, then aim for a larger pond, about 100 metres ahead of you. Pass this on your left (the roof you can see beyond the pond is Gough's House) and go over stiles into Newton Lane.

6. Step 6

   On entering Newton Lane turn right and just before the house and chapel (on your left) cross stiles and walk down this field keeping the woodland area, known as the Setts, on your right.

7. Step 7

   Follow this route until you get to the A528 again, cross the road and make for the nearest corner of woodland. Pass through the gate, into the path known as The Cryn, down the steps, pass the quarry and out onto the Lower Road. Turn right along here back towards Myddle. After the second house on your left go along the small footpath and then follow the road back to the Red Lion.