Walking for Life route – 8 km / 5 mile circular walk Severn Street Car Park, Bridgnorth WV15 6bb (Pay and display).
Walking For Life: Quatford Long Walk
Walking for Life - Walks and Strolls around Bridgnorth – Quatford Long Walk.
Walk directions
Start
From the Severn Street Car Park turn right onto Severn Street to the footbridge to the Bylet Bowling Green.
Step 2
Do NOT cross the bridge, instead turn left before the bridge and go through the metal cycle barriers onto the riverside path. Continue along the riverside path (River Severn on your right) under the bypass, through a kissing gate and over a series of four stiles.
Step 3
Once over the 4th stile continue along the riverside path until you approach the end of the path.
Step 4
Bear left onto a footpath and follow this left hand path up to the road.
Step 5
Carefully cross over the road and turn right and follow the pavement as it bears away from the road to some houses and turn left onto a track (signposted by a fingerpost).
Step 6
After approximately 5 minutes turn left onto a narrow footpath to a stile into some woodland.
Step 7
Once over the stile take the right hand path up the slope and continue until you reach a forest opening.
Step 8
At the opening head diagonally left to follow a narrow path uphill, past a cave on your left and continue onto a road.
Step 9
Turn left onto the road and continue to T-Junction.
Step 10
Turn left at T-junction onto a road.
Step 11
After approximately 5 mins turn right over a stile, keep to the right hand track.
Step 12
When the track opens out, bear right to follow a path alongside an old wall, past Quatford Castle on your left, to a farm track.
Step 13
Turn left onto the track and follow it to the road.
Step 14
Turn right and immediately right again up Old Worcester Road and continue until you approach a roundabout.
Step 15
On approaching the roundabout turn right and cross over the Stourbridge Road (A458) and take the right hand road towards Bridgnorth.
Step 16
Just before the junction with the A442 fork right onto a narrow road (Bernards Hill) and continue until you reach the end of the road.
Step 17
Carefully cross straight over the road and return to the car park where you started.