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 go ahead over the old railway track and over a field. Go left at the far side, ignore the branch joining from the right, and continue through a gap into the Sports Ground. Follow the footpath behind the Scout Hut and the Pavillion, leaving the Sports Ground into the end of a short side road.

Go right onto Toppesfield Road, follow the road until you can turn left into a green lane with a footpath sign.

This green lane can be muddy after heavy rain. Follow it down the slope and after passing 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 bare diagonally right up the slope. Go ahead briefly with the hedge on your left then 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. There is not much room between the hedge on your right and a fence on your left. Follow the path straight ahead over the field and to the end of the further field. At the far side 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 right 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.