A Wander from Weobley

1 Begin by perusing the map in the car park as you may find it useful for exploring the village later. Also, you can speculate on the function of the quirky little building to your left, within the car park. Not only does it have a brick base but, above the doorway, the 'white' cladding is over more brickwork. Opposite the car park entrance is an exemplary medieval black-and-white property, but instead of diving into the village turn left, then left again, towards the Church of St Peter and St Paul. It has a Norman south doorway, parts of the chancel are 13th-century, and the tall tower is from the 14th century.

2 Walk round two sides of the church lane, then go straight ahead on a dirt track. Keep on this track at a cluster of gates. At a single gate take a stile to cut through a traditional orchard, then walk down the left side of a huge field, later guided by power poles. Turn right to walk, fenced in, beside a lane. At the T-junction go right, on a tarmac lane beside a Bulmers' orchard planted in 2000. In the hedgerow, at regular intervals, 'standards' have been planted. The unseemly bits of plastic bag tied to these trees are to ensure that the hedge-cutter does not chop their heads off!

3 After 275yds (251m) take a stile into this orchard. In perhaps 60yds (55m) is a massive oak - walk just 20yds (18m) beyond this, to a waymarker on a chest-high pole. This points you diagonally left, through the orchard, then two fields bring you to a minor road. Turn right for nearly ¾ mile (1.2km), through the hamlet called Weobley Marsh, where you may see horses grazing on the common. Pass a red telephone box then, 50yds (46m) after Link Cottage, take the stile, left. Over the next stile turn right, not ahead, then cross a two-plank footbridge to walk beside Stone House. Follow its driveway to a T-junction. Turn left for 100yds (91m). Turn right (or continue for barely 200yds/183m for the Marshpools Inn). Follow the left field boundary to another minor road. Turn right, then left at the T-junction. At the 'Give way' turn left, but in just 30yds (27m) turn right, through a strip of woodland, into Garnstone Park; very little remains of Garnstone Court. Now go 650yds (594m) along this gravel track to a gate and stile. Here take the right diagonal yellow marker (not ahead), aiming for the flakily whitewashed far end of a long, high brick wall. Turn right here on another dirt track, keeping ahead when it bends right.

4 At the next gate don't go through but turn left - now, along a green motorway, make a beeline for Weobley, guided by its church spire, the second tallest in the county. At a kissing gate go straight through, over the ring and bailey. Another gate and you are at the top of the main street.

5 To return to the car park, go straight down the main street, then turn left at The Old Corner House.