Go up Leather Lane. Shortly beyond where Butlers Way branches off on the right, there is a length of hedge on the right followed by an opening with a garage.

Cross over by the concrete footpath sign and go up the path which is to the left of the garage. It is a narrow path between trees on each side. Follow the path ahead as far as you can ignoring unofficial branches off to the right into the next field. The path then goes right leaves and continues on the field side of the hedge for a very short distance to a footbridge.

Cross the footbridge and turn right. Follow the farm track with the hedge on your right. Follow the track where the boundary first turns left ignoring the gap on the right, follow it as it bends right and left again before going through a gap on the right to a farm road with a concrete slab on the left, and then with hedges on both sides. Follow this short, straight track to a gap just before the gate at the end.

Go through the gap and down the middle of a cultivated field aiming for a gap at the bottom with a post just visible from a distance. This and the next field are often left for some time after ploughing or cultivating before the path is restored. It is heavy clay soil and can be very muddy. Cross a footbridge into the next field and continue up the middle of the field to the corner of the wood at the top.

Go ahead along a wide grass track passing the wood on your left. At the far side of the next field go right through a kissing gate, over a footbridge and left over an unmade farm track. This track can be very muddy. Where the track joins a hard farm road go right to Poole Farm.

As you enter Poole Farm yard go left, then right and right again round the buildings. As you approach the yard exit look to the side of the brick barn to your right with "Whitlock's Chaff Works" embossed in specially made tiles built into the wall. Go left to leave the yard and go ahead to the main road.

At the road go right a short distance and then cross over left and go into the entrance to Orchard Ley which is the start of Blooms Lane. At the first fork in the lane take the left fork and go ahead up the hill. In winter this can be made very muddy by horses. Towards the end of the lane you will pass Redbeard's Wood on your left. In spring it has large areas of Bluebells in flower.

As you emerge from the high hedges on both sides of Bloom's Lane go ahead up the side of the next field with the hedge on your left. This can be very muddy from horses, but soon turns into a broad grassy strip. Level with a gap in the hedge on your left is a way-marking post, turn sharply back to your right and go diagonally down across the field towards a way-marking post by the ditch. Cross the ditch and go left down the hill passing a wood on your left.

At the bottom of the field go right without crossing the bank which marks the filled-in ditch, continue along the bottom of this and the next field.

Go left through the hedge at the far side of the field, down into a Willow plantation. Go right to follow the same hedge in the same direction but on the lower side. Go diagonally left down the slope to the wooden footbridge.

After heavy rain the ground can be covered with water over a foot deep.

Cross the wooden footbridge and go ahead through a thicket to a large fishing lake. Taking care not to disturb fishermen, go left round the end of the lake. As you emerge from the thicket surrounding the lake go up the green lane ahead to the Toppesfield Road.

Turn right at Toppesfield Road and continue towards Great Yeldham, turn left into a side road leading into the Sports Ground. Follow the footpath along the boundary of the Sports Ground, behind the Pavillion and Scout Hut, leaving by a gap in the hedge. Go ahead, then turn right where you join the path from Toppesfield. Cross the field and the old railway track and continue with a field on the left and houses on the right.

Join Great Yeldham High Street from down the concrete steps beside the Police Station. (To avoid the steps go through the gap on the right side to Whitlock Drive, down onto the High Street, left, then right to the Village Green.)

Cross the road to return to the village green.