War Walks on the Home Front 14 – Much Wenlock

Walk directions

1. Start

   From The Square with the clock and museum behind you go along Barrow Street towards the Raven Hotel on your right. Immediately before the Raven is number 29, the building that used to be the Plough.

2. Step 2

   Continue along Barrow Street to Forester Avenue on the right. On the opposite side of Barrow Street at this point was the Gas Works.

3. Step 3

   Go 20 metres beyond Forester Avenue, and on the right is an entry. Follow this entry between a house and a bungalow to some steps on the left, and go up the steps and straight on up the road. At the top go half right and up five steps into another entry leading to a kissing gate. Beyond, go straight up the hill ahead to another kissing gate, through, and turn left. This is Walton Hill with fine views of the southern part of the town.

4. Step 4

   Continue along the edge of the field to the road, and turn right down the hill to a gate and turn right.

5. Step 5

   Go straight on past a copse into a field with a hedge on your left. Ahead is a bungalow estate with access through kissing gate. After the gate go straight ahead along the road to Hunters Gate, and turn left. After 200 metres bear diagonally right along a path across a small park area and then turn left onto a path which goes through a gate, and on up to a road. Turn left past the school to the main road. Look for the lychgate, cross the road, and enter the cemetery.

6. Step 6

   Return to the lychgate and turn left along the footpath as far as the Gaskell Arms Hotel. Cross the road into the High Street and go to No 26, a cottage on the right.

7. Step 7

   Continue a short distance along High Street until you come to a small car park on your left.

8. Step 8

   From the car park bear left into Back Lane, and keep right to a car park which is behind the Corn Exchange.

9. Step 9

   Continue straight on along Back Lane, bearing right at the end into Queen Street, and after a few metres turn right where you will see Holy Trinity Church across the road, and go inside.

10. Step 10

    From the church go back to The Square, and to the Museum on the right.