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Hodnet Walk 10 – Hodnet to Tunstall Woods

An easy 1.5 to 2.5 linear walk from Hodnet to Tunstall Woods

This gentle linear walk through fields and woodland affords the walker a good display of Bluebells as well as other woodland flowers if embarked on in the Spring, usually May.

Hodnet

The Civil Parish of Hodnet, in North East Shropshire, is made up from four areas each containing once independent villages and hamlets. To the north-west of Hodnet is Marchamley, to the north-east Wollerton and to the south the settlement of Peplow.  The name Hodnet is derived from ‘old’ Welsh hawdd ‘pleasant/peaceful’ + nant ‘valley/stream,’ and is usually interpreted as meaning pleasant valley.  The village itself has many interesting builings, it’s oldest dating back to 1546, including Hodnet Hall, the Bear Inn and St Luke’s Church and there are also a Norman castle mound.  Once a busy thoroughfare to Staffordshire along the A53 the building of the Hodnet bypass has afforded the village a quieter atmosphere and is well worth a visit.

See the village website for a guide to some of the historic buildings and sites around Hodnet Hodnet Village website

 

Distance

1.5 or 2.5 miles

Difficulty

Easy

Duration

1 hour 15 minutes

Start from

Webster Lane Farm
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Nearest town

Market Drayton

Parking

Webster Lane roadside

Terrain

Field paths and woodland

Linear walk

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This walk, mainly in woodland, starts near Webster Lane Farm (two sets of roadside parking) – which is accessed off the bypass via a cattle grid or pedestrian gate.

It can also be easily walked to from Hodnet, via Webster Lane.

Walk directions

  1. Step 1

    To start, go down a track (a bridleway) with a pool on your right. Upon reaching woodland, keep to the track down the left side - the woods are private property.

  2. Step 2

    At the end of the first block of woodland, the track curves left then right and passes a field, on the right, to reach Tunstall Wood. At 'A' on the Hodnet Walk 10 map, you can return the way you came or head to Tunstall Farm.

  3. Step 3

    To continue, at 'A' cross a stile and, keeping woodland on your left, go down the field. Where the woodland ends continue downhill, passing 2 electricity poles on your left (located in the next field), to reach a bridge over a small stream.

  4. Step 4

    Go through a field gate on the other side to enter a grazing meadow where, in spring, there are some Wild Daffodils.

  5. Step 5

    Go diagonally left across this meadow towards an oak tree by Tunstall Farm. Here the path turns right, past the rear of some farm buildings, to officially end* by a field gate joining the farm's driveway.

    * Important: There is no right of access beyond this point, so you need to return the way you came.

Hodnet Walk 10

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