These routes might well have been made and used by Saxon Age people living over 10 centuries ago in scattered villages as they travelled by foot and horseback to farm their plots of land in the large, open fields. The Tumuli, about 20 in total near Old Field, Bromfield are Bronze Age burial mounds dating from at least 600.B.C. Some of the finds from excavation are in Ludlow Museum.
Ludlow Country Walks, Walk 4: Castle Square, Bromfield and Racecourse Circular
An interesting 6 mile walk through the fields around the Lower Corve River.
Walk directions
Start
From Castle Square make your way (Town Map recommended) through the Town to the Bull Ring. Bear left and cross the road by the traffic lights. Turning left, walk down Corve Street and ahead to Lower Corve Street, for over half a mile.
Step 2
At the end cross over the road and by the left pavement, walk under the railway bridge bearing left along Fishmore Road. This is fairly straight and in just over half a mile it crosses a bridge over the A49, Ludlow By-pass.
Step 3
Straight after the bridge take the signed, metalled drive for Elm Lodge on the left. Keep straight on to a private gateway for a bungalow.
Step 4
Take the footpath to the left between hedge and fence, over stiles and up to a kissing gate.
Step 5
With the hedge on the left, go over a double set of stiles, through a gate and down to another set of stiles at the bottom of the field. With hedge and stream on the right carry on for half a mile to a kissing gate. Bear left for a quarter of a mile to a bridge over the River Corve.
Step 6
Cross and take the pedestrian gate immediately to the right. Follow the river bank for 400 yards to a kissing gate and along the field edge in the next field another 300 yards to a kissing gate. This gives access to a vehicle track around the racecourse and golf course.
Step 7
Tum left to the road, (B4365), bear left over the railway bridge to the main road (A49).
Step 8
Cross the A49, TAKE CARE CROSSING THIS ROAD, into the field opposite picking up a well marked bridleway. Follow this track turning left to pass through a gate by a house and farm and crossing a private drive to Burway (inclined to be wet and muddy).
Step 9
Follow the path towards Ludlow; after 300 yards the track becomes metalled. (This route is the old Borough Way, part of an ancient Clun to Clee Ridgeway). Follow this route back towards Ludlow turning right at the road. Look for a path to your right up 7 steps and go through a metal kissing gate.
Step 10
Follow this well marked path through 'Boiling Well Meadow' and over a pedestrian bridge over the River Corve to a lane. Bear right, up towards the Castle and back up to Castle Square.