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Now on a drive, follow this to a country road, where you turn left. After about 120 metres turn right through a gate onto a track which cuts through more woodland, beyond which you go through a kissing gate into a narrow meadow. Keep ahead to another belt of woodland. Through this cross a stile beside a bridle gate, then maintain direction along the edge of another meadow. At the bottom of this go through a gate by some willows, then aim half-left towards the right-hand end of a barn at Obriss Farm for more big views to the south. Here you come onto a farm drive and continue, eventually reaching Mapleton Road at TQ 460 501.

Wood near Obriss

Turn right and walk with care along this country road (there’s no pavement) for about 400 metres. Just after passing a cottage on the right, take a footpath through a kissing gate on the left into a belt of trees beside a stream. Soon enter a rectangular meadow and maintain direction along its left-hand boundary beside more woodland. At the far corner go through another strip of trees and over a stile into a sloping meadow. Veer half-right down to a field gate, a stile and another small stream. Over this walk up the next sloping meadow which is divided by trees and bushes. Keep to the left of these and ascend a vague grass path aiming towards a house. At the head of the slope a kissing gate gives access to a continuing path rising between hedges and a garden wall. The way soon turns left where fences divide two sections of garden. Through a white gate turn right down a drive to the head of a narrow metalled lane by a tile-hung cottage.