Walking for Life route – 6.2 km / 3.8 mile circular walk. Starting at Listley Street North Car Park, Bridgnorth WV16 4AW (Pay and display)
Instructions for a shorter version of tis walk are available here – Oldbury to Eardington – short walk
Walking For Life: Bridgnorth Oldbury to Eardington (Long Walk)
Walks and Strolls around Bridgnorth – Oldbury to Eardington Long Walk
Walk directions
Start
Start at Listley Street Car Park, cross straight over the road onto Railway Street and continue to a T-junction.
Step 2
At the T-junction cross straight over onto a hardcore track (signposted Severn Valley Railway SVR).
Step 3
Just as you approach the station take a waymarked footpath uphill to your right (just through a gateway).
Step 4
At the top of the footpath continue straight across the school playing fields towards a brick building; pass the brick building on your right and continue to a stile in the top right hand corner.
Step 5
Go over the stile and follow the path onto a footbridge over the bypass.
Step 6
Once over the footbridge turn right onto Cycle Route 45 Mercian Way and continue until you reach a small lane.
Step 7
Continue up lane and then turn onto a footpath on your right just before a left hand bend in the lane. Once in the field keep to the right hand fence and continue until you reach a stile in the far corner to re-join lane.
Step 8
Continue straight ahead onto the lane for a couple of minutes to a marked footpath on your left.
Step 9
On footpath head diagonally right across field to a gateway on the far side onto the road.
Step 10
Cross straight over the road onto a track and then immediately bear right to cross another field keeping the two oak trees on your right to a stile in the hedge.
Step 11
Once over the stile turn left, and follow the hedge line to a hard core track to Westwood Farm.
Step 12
Continue up the track and bear left before the large shed to walk along the track between a house and a cottage.
Step 13
When the track bears left back towards the road, turn right and over a stile, and bear left.
Step 14
Continue through a gate in front of the house, and bear right towards a wood. Once in the wood follow the way markers left handed out of the wood back towards the house and follow the left hand hedge down the field over two stiles in the bottom left hand corner.
Step 15
Once over the stile head across the field to another stile onto the road. Cross straight over onto a footpath directly opposite you.
Step 16
Follow the footpath to a stile, once over the stile bear right towards another stile in the distance.
Step 17
Once over stile walk straight ahead up the field to the top hedge where you will see another stile hidden in the trees. Once over stile, head to the right of copse and pond over stile onto road.
Step 18
Very carefully turn left onto the road (cross over and walk on the right hand side). Continue along the road until you reach a small church on your left.