Whitchurch Walkers Route 8: Wet Your Whistle in Ash

Walk directions

1. Start

   Leave the main Brown Moss car park and re-join the lane heading south to a fingerpost by the bungalow called The Boathouse.

2. Step 2

   Leave the lane walk in a north easterly direction through some woodland and then through gates across two fields rising to a lane and a viewpoint. At the top of the hill stands the village of Ash Magna. Walk on and turn left on to the road and you will soon arrive at a T-junction.

3. Step 3

   Turn left and walk on the roadside to a Christmas tree plantation on the right.

4. Step 4

   Turn right here seemingly along a driveway for a short way and follow the path into a field. On a clear day there is a good view from this path over towards the Welsh hills and South Shropshire. Follow the waymarked path through five fields to join Catterals Lane where you turn sharp left.

5. Step 5

   This quiet lane has a series of interesting, well spaced out and varied properties on either side. At the end you will come to a T-junction.

6. Step 6

   Cross the road and go slightly to the right to an old narrow iron kissing gate. Follow the path through horse paddocks and four kissing gates to meet the Shropshire Way.

7. Step 7

   Turn left on to what is in fact a bridleway and follow the Shropshire Way through two fields to join a quiet tarmac lane on a bend. Turn to your right and bear left following the Shropshire Way signs towards Brown Moss. At the ‘No Access’ sign on your right keep straight ahead through a wooden gate into the trees and follow the path to reach the Whitchurch Walkers’ 30th anniversary commemorative wooden bench for a well earned rest and contemplation of the largest pool on Brown Moss. The car park is through the trees to your left.