Go along Bridge Street, over the bridge, go left of the small triangular green to the High Street.

Just opposite to the Police Station cross the main road.

Go up the concrete steps just to the left of the Police Station, follow the path behind the houses. (To avoid the steps go to the top right side of Whitlock Drive, and go through the gap on the right).

At the end of the houses ignore the junction with an unofficial path along the old railway line on the left and go foreward along a narrow uncultivated strip across a field.

Go left along the field margin ignoring the path almost immediately joining from Toppesfield on the right.

Keep ahead into a narrow spinney along the top of the Sports Ground. This path runs behind the Scout Hut and the Pavillion.

At the far side go left and right onto the private concrete access road and go ahead to the Toppesfield Road.

Go left until you are opposite the site of the Railway Station and go right beside the abandoned embankment. Go right through two field gates into a meadow.

A little way into the meadow, known as Cobblands, with the fence on your left, go left over a stile, then right so that you follow the same fence but now on the other side. This is an area of open public access under the Countryside Stewardship Scheme. It rather conveniently provides a link in our local footpath network.

Keep ahead, passing Cobbs Lake on your left and leave the Countryside Stewardship Area over a stile beside the gate.

Go ahead to the far bottom corner of the field and go left into a thicket surrounding the lakes. Be careful not to disturb any fishermen. Keep right beside the end of the lake and go right along the path through a thicket of trees and shrubs.

Cross the wooden footbridge into a Willow plantation and keep ahead up the slope. Go right at the far side (ignoring the stile into the meadow above), and go ahead with the hedge on your left. Go left through a gap, up into a field and continue along the upper side of the same hedge with the hedge and ditch on your right. Follow path over a wooden footbridge and to the end of the further field go left up the side of the field at a way-marked junction with a wood on your right.

Part way up the side of the field go right by a way-marking post over a piped field access into the next field. Go diagonaly left and up hill across the cultivated field aiming for the gap in the hedge at the top. At the way-marked gap do not go through the gap, but sharp left in the same field with the hedge on your right.

This is a bridgeway and liable to be made almost impassable in winter by mud made by horses. Cross into the next field and into the end of Blooms Lane with Redbeard's Wood on the right. In spring large numbers of Bluebells can be seen in the wood from the lane.

Continue down Blooms Lane to the main road, cross over and go right a short way along the pavement then go left over a bridge and along the drive to Poole Farm. Go right just before the first buildings. Look across the yard to your left to see the side of the brick barn with "Whitlock's Chaff Works" embossed in specially made tiles built into the wall. Keep ahead at the first junction by the buildings and go left round the far end, left again, and right to leave the yard going up hill along a hard farm road.

At the top of the slope go left along an unmade track which can be so muddy as to be almost impassable. At the next field entrance go right over a footbridge and left though a kissing gate. Continue along a wide grass track towards Yeldham with the hedge on your left. You will pass a small wood on your right. At the far corner of the wood keep ahead across a cultivated field, over a bridge in the gap at the bottom, and up another cultivated field. Both these fields may be left for some time after being ploughed or cultivated before the path is restored. They are a heavy clay soil and can be very muddy.

Go through the gap at the top of the field and go right (ignore the gate on the left which goes down Spayne's Hall drive), along a farm road with hedges on both sides into the next field.

Go ahead through into the next field. Continue with the hedge on your left as it turns right, left and right again, to the far side of the field. Go left across a footbridge and follow the path as it immediately goes through a gap on the right from the field side of the hedge to the inside of an overgrown green lane. Follow the path between the trees to Leather Lane. Go left down the road to the Village Green.