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Pass Mowthorpe Farm and walk a little way up the road, then turn right as indicated by a footpath sign. Go through a kissing gate and turn right to walk downhill a little, then turn left to walk up a grassy groove alongside an old hedgerow. Go through a gate, then turn left up to another gate that gives access to Hawthorn Wood. Follow a clear path across and up the wooded slope, then walk beside a field to reach Suffield Ings farm, at around 160m (525ft). Keep to the right of the buildings as marked and leave along the farm access road. Keep straight on at a junction, but later, when the track swings right, leave it by following a path down to the left. This goes down a wooded valley and passes a crumbling limekiln. When a road is reached, turn left; it is hardly necessary to walk on the road, since as one path joins it, another heads off to the left. Hackness village and Walk 2 are easily reached from here.)

The path climbs a wooded slope, followed by a grassy slope, apparently for no other reason than to provide a fine view of Hackness Hall. Having achieved this aim, the path turns right downhill, crosses a stile and enters a wood, then runs gradually downhill across a slope. Leave the wood at another stile and contour across a grassy slope overlooking Mill Farm and the Derwent Valley. Turn right downhill as marked to cross a road, followed by a nearby footbridge over the River Derwent. Walk straight ahead alongside a field and follow an access road past some cottages in the hamlet of Wrench Green. Turn left along a minor road, pass a junction at Cockrah Foot and keep straight ahead at a junction marked ‘no through road’ to pass more houses.