Following through Pontesbury village along the old railway and towards Pontesford Hill. Look out for coots, moorhens and various ducks and geese on the pools. Ravens and buzzards are also seen above the trees on Pontesford Hill.
Walking for Life: Pontesbury Walks – Earlsdale Pool
Walking for Life – Pontesbury walks – Earlsdale pool
Walk directions
Start
Turn right out of Pontesbury Medical Practice and walk down Hall Bank until you reach a kissing gate on your right (just after the bus shelter).
Step 2
Turn right through the kissing gate and into the field. Continue along the fence line of the houses on your left to another kissing gate ahead of you.
Step 3
Once through the kissing gate turn right onto the old railway line. Continue past the playground, over Hinton Lane bridge, past Roseville (Rose Cottage where Mary Webb wrote her first novels) until you reach the junction with Back Lane.
Step 4
Turn right up Back Lane and continue along the lane until you reach the main road in Pontesford.
Step 5
Turn right and carefully cross the road and continue for approximately 100 metres to a road on your left.
Step 6
Turn left up the road and continue for approximately 500 metres until you reach another lane on your left (marked as a Bridleway).
Step 7
Turn left on to the lane and continue for 50 metres until you see a track branching off the right.
Step 8
Keep to the right hand track, and continue past the pool on your right.
Step 9
At the top of the rise turn right (also signposted as a bridleway) and continue along the track for approximately 100 metres to a gate on your right by a pool.
Step 10
Turn right through the gate and across the field to another gate into a wooded area.
Step 11
Go through the gate into the wooded area and turn right and follow the track through the car park to a road.
Step 12
When you reach the road turn right for approximately 50m until you see a track on your left.
Step 13
Turn left onto the track and follow it back on yourself, until you reach a gate across a field on your right.
Step 14
Go through the gate and follow the path across the field to a kissing gate.
Step 15
Go through the kissing gate and turn right and continue until you reach Bogey Lane.
Step 16
Turn left onto Bogey Lane and continue past the school, library and cemetery to Chapel Street.
Step 17
Turn left onto Chapel Street and then immediately right onto Stalleon Lane.
Step 18
Continue past the church on your right and past Manor Park to the junction.
Step 19
At the junction turn right back up Hall Bank (take care on the narrow pavement) to Pontesbury Medical Centre on your left.