Walking for Life route – 13.5 km / 8.4 mile circular walk. Starting at Innage Lane Car Park, Bridgnorth, WV16 4EU (Pay and display).
Walking For Life: Bridgnorth Astley Abbotts – Long Walk
Walks and Strolls around Bridgnorth – Astley Abbotts Long Walk.
Walk directions
Start
Park in the Innage car park next to Fire Station. Turn right and walk up Innage Lane to T-junction.
Step 2
Turn left up the Hookfield to the junction with Victoria Road.
Step 3
Turn right onto Victoria Road.
Step 4
At the shops turn left into the Hook Farm Road estate, walking towards Hook Farm. Bear right down track over stile. At second stile bear left across field to corner of woodland, (Trinity Wood) follow footpath over footbridge and stiles to the road.
Step 5
Turn right and walk up the road past the water tower and church to the track to Kingsley Farm on your right.
Step 6
Turn right down the track and go through the gate on your right as indicated by bridleway signpost.
Go over footbridge, across the field towards the cottage and through a metal wicket gate, then follow the hardcore track from the cottage to the road.
Step 7
Cross the road and turn left and immediately right to Astley Abbots and Colemore Green.
Step 8
Walk through the village past the private driveway and Lodge to Stanley Hall and through the gate on the right into a field. Follow the path through a series of stiles and past a series of fishing pools round Boldings Farm
Step 9
Turn right and follow the road.
Step 10
Turn left after a couple of minutes through a metal gate into a wood. Continue to ‘old railway track’ and turn left until stile on right for access to Severn Way footpath.
Step 11
Turn right and follow riverside path over a series of fields and stiles all through the golf course to cross a metal and concrete footbridge.
Step 12
Just after footbridge turn right across playing field to a kissing gate.
Step 13
Turn left, go through the estate, then up a track indicated by a signpost to the road.
Step 14
Turn left and follow Love Lane and Cliff Road to the junction by Northgate. Cross the road, then turn right and follow tarmac path back to the Innage car park.