Hodnet Walk 9 – Peplow to Stoke on Tern

Walk directions

1. Step 1

   To start, go through a pedestrian gate and cross a field to a farm track.

2. Step 2

   Turn right and pass through 3 field gates then, at the top of a rise, go around to the right.

3. Step 3

   Continue past a copse until you see a stile on the left. Cross it and, keeping a hedge on your right, head to a field gate.

4. Step 4

   Continue past another field gate (with stile adjacent), to reach a field gate and bridge on the right.

5. Step 5

   Now head diagonally left to reach a stile, bridge and stile. Keeping a hedge on your left, go on (passing an old field gate post with Horse Shoes embedded in it) to enter the next field through a field gate.

6. Step 6

   Here turn diagonally right and head to a stile, bridge and pedestrian gate by trees. In the distance you’ll now see a Church Tower which you head towards, keeping a ditch on your right at first then following, on slightly raised ground, an indistinct field boundary.

7. Step 7

   After a field gate you join a track which you follow, keeping a hedge on your right, towards old ‘Petsey’ farm.

8. Step 8

   Turn right off the track to pass between two iron roofed barns, then head towards the left hand side of a modern farm building—glimpsing Petsey’s 1634 doorway off to your right.

9. Step 9

   Turn right onto a farm drive and then, by the end of a fence line, go left to reach a pedestrian gate and some steps down to a road, where you turn right. Now head towards St Peter’s Church, with its picnic area alongside. On the way you’ll finally see the River Tern - do have a look over the edge of the old Sandstone Bridge to see its unusual flood arches.