WALKS AROUND BROMYARD SUPPLEMENT
April 2016
Bromyard Walkers are Welcome Group is publishing this supplement because there are a few changes on the ground
and some areas for improvement in the descriptions since the book was originally published. We intend to issue
further updates as necessary . Please see the “welcome to walkers” page on www.visitbromyard.co.uk for the latest
information. Contact 01886 821544 for further details.
WALK 2 To Buckenhill, Edvin Loach & Edwyn Ralph
From the Stourport Road, the footpath follows the RHS of the river, for about 150M, to a steel and concrete
footbridge.
Cross this bridge. Walk N.W. up the field to.
Walk north up the field that you are in, passing the stone bridge on the left. Follow the left hand hedge and pass the
stile in the fence. Continue to the top of the field. Cross the stile and look for the bridge on the RHS in about 40M.
Cross the bridge and turn 45 degrees left across the field to a stile in the fence. If crops prevent this, just turn left and
follow the field edge alongside the stream and turn right at the fence, to the stile. Cross this stile and continue
diagonally across the field to a gate just west of a pond and a wood, to the left of New Barnes Farm. If a crop is
present, turn right and follow the hedge towards the farmhouse, then continue past the wood and pond. Pass through
the gate, cross the farm track and over the stile opposite. Cross this field to a stile in the far hedge. Cross the next two
fields rising diagonally right. You should now have a view ahead of Buckenhill Manor. Cross the stile and descend
diagonally right of the house to a gate in the corner. Pass through the gate and in about 25M turn 90 degrees left
through a second gate. Continue forward and upwards, just to the right of a large tree. Cross the stile in the fence and
cross the roadway. Look for a finger post across the road. Cross the stile at the top of the bank, in the trees. Cross the
next field diagonally right and follow the hedge northwards, past two gates on your left. Drop down to a stile in the
left hand corner of the field. You will now be at .
You can now continue forward on the Long Walk or turn left and follow the Short Walk notes.
Long Walk via Edvin Loach. At the bottom of the hill from , there is a concrete bridge with stock barriers at
each end, tied with waxed string. This has been reported but is passable with care.
 Cross the fence by the stile. Walk downhill with the fence on your right. Follow the waymarks down the field and
past the cottage and its garden to the fence below them.
 Leave the churchyard by a stile on the right, from the road. Cross the stile and turn left. Follow the church wall
south until it turns left. Continue straight forward to a footbridge in the hedge on the other side of the field. Cross and
turn diagonally left to join the LH hedge. Follow to a stile just beyond a second gate. Follow the walk notes to  on
the walk map.
WALK 3 – To Bromyard Downs
Three starting points: A)Bromyard Centre; B) The public car park near the Royal Oak pub on the Downs; C)
Brockhampton School, by bus No. 420 from/to Bromyard. (Hereford/Worcester bus).
A) ( & ) No change. B) ( to ) From the public car park by the Royal Oak, cross the road and walk down the
path to , on the map. Turn right and follow the racecourse as before.
C) If you came by bus, leave the bus stop, on the main road, and walk uphill to the entrance track towards Warren
Farm. In a short distance the track turns right but carry straight on to a stile at  on the map.
If you do the short walk, after  go to the last paragraph for the options on the way back.
WALK 4 - To Bringsty Common & Whitbourne
 You could easily divert from here to the Live and let Live, just down the stone track. The Herb nursery is now
called Stone Barn. When you have crossed the A44, the stone track you want is just to the left of Bramble Cottage.
 At the Old Mill, the farm track turns left but go to the right through a gate (Walks around Bromyard sign). Cross
the stream and bear right, keeping close to the trees on your right. At the far end of the field, you enter a wood by a
stile, part of the Brockhampton Estate. Continue through the wood above the stream, ignoring tracks from the left,
until the track starts to descend and bend to the right. and crosses the stream. DO NOT CROSS THE STREAM.
 Just before the bend, take a smaller track on the left, up the bank of a side valley. Turn right at the T-Junction and
then immediately left down a broad track. Cross the stream and then turn sharp right and follow the RED Route signs,
to come out at Lawn Pool.
WALK 5 To Linton Mill
 “Walk down the track”. Keep on the track, straight on “look out for the grass track”- not that narrow now and you
turn just before the wires..
 “cross the road and follow the left hand hedge” - down on to the common land. DO NOT STAY ON THE ROAD.
 “follow the left hand hedge to a stile in the corner” – this is NOT someone’s back garden, in spite of a washing
line.
WALK 6 – To Avenbury & Bishops Frome
 After ‘Little Frome’ Farm, take the track to the left of the buildings. At its end, take the footpath to the left through
a wooden gate and follow the path uphill, to a partly completed building and a metal gate with small wooden gate
alongside. Though the gate, still uphill, following the hedge on the RHS for about 100M. Walk diagonally left across
the sloping field to a corner of a wood. There is a metal gate (replacing the old wooden stile) to the right of the corner.
Continue up through the “young wood” to another metal gate. Follow the walk notes to Avenbury Court.
 Medium Walk
Leave by the gate at the top. Turn right along the hedge to a stile in the fence and a line of poplars at the top. Turn
right to skirt the field. Go through two lines of trees and turn right to skirt the next field down to a track. Turn left up
track past farm building and caravans. Climb track to hill crest with copse on right. Turn sharp left on ridge towards
mast and Hawkins Wood. Walk down through Hawkins Wood.
Leaving the wood, go straight ahead to a bridge over a stream. Follow the right hand hedge up the next two fields.
Bear left at waymarked gate and follow the left hand hedge to a gate and stile on to the road.
 Medium Walk, Penultimate sentence:
Cross the stile just on the right and climb the bank with the hedge on your left, to a stile at the top corner.
Medium Walk, replace third & fourth sentences with:
Go across the middle of the field over two stiles on either side of the drive and then go straight across field to a stile.
Then go diagonally across field to right of telegraph poles, to pick up waymarker post to right of post and barbed wire
fence. Cross the next field to the projecting angle of an old hedge.
 Long Walk, last two sentences:
Walk diagonally left across a new orchard, heading for a house in the distance. Cross the footbridge to the left of the
house.
 Long Walk, last sentence:
Turn left along it and take the lane signposted Paunton/Avenbury. DO NOT TURN RIGHT AT THE JUNCTION.
 Long Walk
Unfortunately the public footpaths at Ward Hill described in are currently impassable. Until this route can be
cleared, the walker must take the lane to the left at the junction signposted PAUNTON/AVENBURY. Walk this quiet
lane for 2Km, passing two roads on the right. Turn right at the cross roads.
Turn next left towards Acton Beauchamp Church at .
WALK 8 To Bredenbury, Thornbury & Grendon Bishop
 LONG WALK via Thornbury Church.
For the walk via Thornbury Church, turn right over the cattle grid and follow the road for about 1km. At the dip just
part a farm turn left (the path has been officially diverted here). Go straight ahead through the farm and keep left of the
ponds. The next section can be overgrown. Look for a stile in the top left hand corner. Cross the stile and keep the
cropped field on your right. Look for another bridge, in about 120m, crossing a stream. Cross the bridge and keep
right. Pass through some undergrowth. Keep left of any growing crop beyond this. When you reach a metalled track,
cross the stile and turn right to reach the Thornbury road. Now follow the book from “Go left along it....”
 Follow the notes as far as Grendon Manor. Leave SE. by the gate just beyond the farmhouse, keeping the hedge on
your right. In about 150M, cross to the other side of the hedge at an open gate and continue down towards Grendon
Bishop Church. Keep right of the church but left of the pond, to a waymarked stile in the fence just beyond the pond.
Aim diagonally left across the next field to a stile in the hedge. The next field is larger, descending to the left of two
trees to the boundary fence. Cross the stile to a bridge in about 50M.. Climb the bank and turn sharp left following the
stream. In about 100M, the path turns right, but our route is left, down to the stream. At present, the bridge is missing
but can be crossed with care. Climb the steep bank opposite and go straight up the field ahead, under the power line
at the top of the hill. Go through the gate at the far side of the field, into a lane. Continue up this lane to the main A44
road. Cross to the far pavement and follow left along the A44 to the school.