HORNTON TO HORLEY
Leave the churchyard by the east gate and go to the end of Church Lane. Turn left at the road and go up to the Methodist Church on your left. Having visited the Church, retrace your steps to The Green, now on your left, crossing this diagonally to reach the entrance to Pages Lane. Go down the lane, passing Apple Cottage on the left until after a narrow section you come to a gate. Follow the path slightly rightwards across the field (signed Footpath Horley 1 3/4) to a further gate. Go through this and head straight on across the field (signed Circular Path), ignoring options to left and right. Towards the end of the field the path curves uphill leftwards to another gate. Go through this and towards the post and wire fence ahead. Turn right on the footpath, the line of which runs somewhat below the fence and parallel to it. The path runs downhill to a gate with a pond on the right. Go through this gate and a further one and on up steps into a field. Continue with the hedgerow on your left into the next field. At he end of the field go through the gate in the corner and slightly right down to a further gate. Go through this, cross the footbridge and go up the steps and through a further gate. Go half right across the field, through a gate in the hedge and turn left up the lane. After about 70 metres turn right to a stile and , going over this, continue 1/2 left across the field to a gap in the hedge and then 1/4 right across the next field, aiming for the right end of the line of houses ahead. Follow the path down to the edge of the field and into tress. Keeping close to the hedge on your left cross a small stream and continue up to a stile in the post and wire fence. Cross this and go 1/2 left up the field. The path curves leftwards round bushes to a stile in the corner of the filed. Cross the stile and and continue along garden boundary on the left to a further stile. Cross this, go down the steps and turn left along the road. Pass Horley Manor on the right to reach St Etheldreda's Church.
HORLEY TO HANWELL
Leave the churchyard by the west gate and turn right. At the road junction cross the road and turn right down the hill. At the main road (Red Lion Pub on right) turn left (signed Banbury) and continue to the B4100 (it may feel safer to use the right-hand verge at points on this stretch). Cross the B4100, go through a gap in the hedge and turn immediately right (ignoring the option to continue straight on) into a field. Cross the field diagonally 1/2 right aiming slightly to the left of the telegraph pole on this diagonal. Go through the gap in the hedge onto the road. Bear left on the road past the Village Hall on the left to reach, after about 100 metres, Church Lane on the right (signed 12th Century Church and No Through Road). Turn down Church Lane to St Peter's Church.
HANWELL TO DRAYTON
Leaving the Church by the north door turn left and left again into the churchyard. Go past the west end of the church and leave the churchyard by the south gate. Go 1/4 right (ignore the option to go straight on) across the field to a gate. Go through the gate and continue on the same line to the top right hand corner of the field. Cross the track (footpath marker) and go through the hedge. Go 1/2 right across the field to the trees at the field edge. Go through the trees and 1/4 right over the filed towards the right hand street lamp ahead of you. to reach the main road. Cross the road and turn left. Just after the 40 mph Welcome to Banbury sign turn right onto a footpath (signed Drayton 1/2). Continue 1/2 left across the field, aiming just to the right of the bungalow ahead of you (there is another house at some distance to the right of the bungalow), to reach a track. Go straight across the track and past the bungalow with its hedge on your left. At the end of the hedge cross a further a further track and turn immediately right down a track with a fence on the left and a hedge and then a fence on the right. After about 80 metres, as the tracks bears right and downwards, turn left onto another track which curves left to run between fields and then bends right. At this bend turn left into the field as continue as the track curves left following the field edge. There is a lake beneath you to the right. As you come to the bottom of a decline go slightly left with a grove of trees to your right, crossing a track to reach a gate. Pass the gate on your left and continue upwards between two fences until you come to a gate and a metalled road (Queen's Crescent). Continue straight along the road to reach the main road (Ivy Cottage on your right and Metcalfe Close on your left). Bear left up the main road, passing the Village Hall on your left, and cross the road before it curves left. Continue in the same direction until you reach the Church noticeboard and the entrance to Glebefields Care Home (footpath marker 'North Newington 1 1/2'). At Glebefields continue through the gate ahead of you (signed St Peter's Church Only) and down the hill to reach St Peter's Church.
DRAYTON TO WROXTON
Leave the church and go back up the track to the gate. Immediately after the gate turn left and then left again through a kissing gate and continue back down the hill. Turn left to a stile. Cross this and go straight across the field to a gate. Go through the gate (footpath marker) and 1/2 right across the filed to reach a wood. At the edge of the wood turn left and continue skirting the wood. At the end of the wood turn right and cross abridge over a stream. Follow the path up the hill 1/4 right towards the obelisk. At the obelisk continue 1/2 right. Cross a stile and continue 1/4 right downhill to the lake. Go on past the lake, over a stile and uphill to a gate in the corner of the field. Go through the gate and continue on the path towards a gate in the fence ahead of you. Do not go through this gate but continue on the path with the fence on your right to a further gate. Go through this and on down to emerge into Dark Lane. Turn right and with the wall of Wroxton College on your right go to the College gates and then on past them down Church Street until you reach All Saints Church at a leftward bend.
WROXTON TO BALSCOTE
Leave the Church and go back along Church Street, passing Wroxton College gates on your left, the duckpond on your right and then the Primary School on your left until you reach the main road. Turn left and continue to the next road (signed N Newington 1 1/2). Cross the road and go past the 17th century signpost and over a stile in the hedge onto a footpath (signed). Go straight ahead across the field and at the corner of a wire fence turn left towards the quarry and then right as you reach it. Continue through quarry workings to a road (NB. The footpath may at this point be diverted because of quarrying, in which case you will need to turn right, then left along a field edge and left again to reach the road, turning right into it, having in essence walked three sides of a rectangle.) Turn left and continue for about 250 metres and then turn right down a farm track (signed footpath) on the other side of the road. Continue on the track, eventually passing barns on your left, to a road on the edge of Balscote. Turn left and follow the road up the hill round a right hand bend (do not take turn off up roads to the right) until you reach a junction with the Butchers Arms ahead of you. Turn right to reach St Mary Magdalene, Balscote on your right.
BALSCOTE TO SHENINGTON
On leaving St Mary Magdalene's churchyard turn right and then first left. Follow this road to the T-junction (about 800 metres) and turn right. After about 300 metres cross a stile marked 'Shenington and Alkerton' on the left of the road . Go straight on with Shenington Church ahead of you a little to the right and then go down the slope to a gate. Go through the gate and bear half left towards a track. Go leftwards along the track and follow it as it curves rightwards, keeping a line of trees on your right hand. Pass under telegraph lines to reach a stile (footpath marker: Circular Route). Go over the stile and curve right. Go through a gate and then left through another gate at a signpost directing to Shenington. Go half left down the slope and, passing a pond on your left (with a tennis court beyond), go down a stepped stone path through trees. At the end of the path turn left to reach a gate on your right. Go through this and over a stream and across a stile. Continue 1/4 right across the field to the far corner. Go into the next field and through a gate on your right (footpath marker). Go up the field 1/2 left aiming slightly to the right of a telegraph wire stanchion at the top right-hand corner. Passing the stanchion go over a stile (with a gate). Turn right down the lane and continue between houses to reach the Green. Holy Trinity Church, Shenington is to your right.
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SHENINGTON TO ALKERTON
Turn left out of the main door of Shenington Church and leave the churchyard by the east gate to enter Chapel Lane. Turn left and cross the main road and turn right. After about 40 metres you reach a sign for the D'Arcy Dalton Way. Turn left down the path. Go through a gate and follow the path downhill to a footbridge over a stream (near a telegraph pole). Cross the footbridge via a stile and continue on to a gate. Go through the gate and then 1/2 left, aiming for the corner of a wooden fence. At the fence corner, go right along the fence and then right towards buildings and a gate. Go through the gate and between the buildings to a further gate with a stile. Cross the stile and continue to a gate on the left hand side of the drive. Go through the gate and climb the steps to the Church of St Michael and All Angels, Alkerton (left at the top of the steps).
ALKERTON TO HORTON
Leave Alkerton churchyard and continue past the steps by which you came up with the Old Rectory on your left. At the end of the drive turn left onto a footpath. Before Hill Barn (Access Only sign) bear right up the slope with the path curving right. Go through a gate into a field and continue along the hedgerow on your left. Go through a further gate in the field corner and continue to a stile. Cross this into the road and turn left. Continue along the road, passing the Recycling Centre, until you reach the A 422. Turn right along the verge and then cross the road to reach the entrance to Hornton Grounds Farm. Having turned left off the A422, after about 50 metres turn right at the signs for Hornton Grounds and Hornton Grounds Farm and follow the track round a left hand bend and on past the front of the farmhouse and through the farmyard to a gate (bridleway markers). Go through the gate and follow the track which eventually curves downwards and rightwards and then to the left (this hollow way is likely to be muddy) to bring you into the village of Hornton (playground on left). Go straight on past the Primary School on your left and turn left down Church Lane to reach the Church of St John the Baptist.
WROXTON TO DRAYTON
Turn right out of the church and left out of the churchyard. After a few meters follow Church Street round a right-hand bend and continue to the gates of Wroxton College on the left of the road. Dark Lane runs to the right of the gates as you face them. Go down Dark Lane and where the road bends right turn left onto a footpath (there is a footpath sign at this point on the right side of Dark Lane indicating Banbury 3). Follow the path as it curves rightwards past steps up to a house on the right and a gate into Wroxton College on the left grounds on the left to reach a kissing gate. Go through this and up the slope towards the tower. Turn left at the tower and continue to a gate in the fence to your right (footpath marker). Go through the gate and ¾ left down the hill. Cross a stile to reach a lake and continue with a metal fence on your left. At the end of the lake go 1/2 left up hill towards the obelisk. Cross a stile and continue to the obelisk. Follow the track (aiming slightly to the right of a folly in the tree-line on the hill ahead) down to a bridge. Cross the bridge and continue on, ignoring a gate to the left. Go to the corner of the wood on your left and then turn left and continue, skirting the wood on your left. At the far corner of the wood take the path ½ right up the slope to a gate. Go through the gate and slightly rightwards to the next gate. Go through this and straight across the field to a stile (St Peter’s Churc) is on your right). Cross the stile and turn left and then right up the hill to a gate in the field corner. Go through the gate, turn right and then immediately right again down the road, with Glebefields are Home above you to the left, to St Peter’s Church, Drayton.
DRAYTON TO HANWELL
Retrace your steps up the road from the Church and continue until you reach the main road. Arden Close is opposite on the other side of the road. Cross the road, turn left and continue to Metcalfe Close just after the Village Hall on your right. Cross Metcalfe Close and enter Queens Lane (thatched Ivy Cottage to the left). When the metalled road ends, continue on the bridleway, through (or round) a gate and down the track as it curves rightwards between fences. Go past a gate on your right and slightly leftwards to cross a track leading into a grove of tress on your left. Continue past the trees and up the slope slightly rightwards and go on with a lake below you on the left until you reach a grit track follow this rightwards and then leftwards until you reach a further track Turn right and then first left. Pass the bungalow ahead of you on its left, keeping the hedge close to you on your right. Where the grass ends, cross the track and continue on the same line towards the hedge and main road beyond, Go through the hedge via a footbridge and turn left. Almost immediately, just after the gates on the verges and the unrestricted speed signs, turn right across the road and go through the hedge at a sign indicating Hanwell ½. Go 3/4 left across the field to a gap in the trees and, going through the tress, continue half right across the field. On leaving the field via a gap in the hedge, cross the track in front of you (Gullicote Lane) and turn roughly ½ left at a footpath marker with Hanwell Church ahead of you. Continue to and through a gate and then on in the same direction to the south gate of the churchyard of St Peter’s Church. Hanwell. Go past the west end of the Church and turn right to reach the north door.
HANWELL TO HORLEY
Leave St Peter's by the north door and turn left. Continue up Church Lane to reach the main road. Cross the road, Cross this, turn left and continue to the Village Hall on the right. Cross the track which runs to the right just beyond the Village Hall and go through the hedge (there is a footpath sign) into a field. Cross the field half right. At the far right corner go through the hedge to reach the B4100. Cross this road and continue on the road opposite towards Horley (the left-hand verge may at times feel the safer option). Having pssed the cricket ground on the right turn right at the Red Lion pub and go up the road via the footway on the right, past the churchyard to the left left. Take the first left turn to reach St Etheldreda's, Horley.
HORLEY TO HORNTON
On leaving the Church by the west door turn left at the road and continue to where the road turns left. At the corner go up the steps on the right and over a stile. Continue with the hedge to your immediate right to another stile. Go over this and down the slope, skirting bushes and trees on your right and then, after the bushes and trees, go 3/4 right to a stile. Cross this and follow the path downwards, across a small stream and then upwards into a field. With a barn 1/2 right ahead of you, go up across the field, initially straight on and then curving right, to a gap in the hedge. Go through this and continue half right to the hedge in the direction to the right of two telegraph poles ahead of you. Cross the stile in the hedge and turn left down the lane (Clump Lane). After abut 70 metres turn right through a gate into a field. Go half left across the field. Go through a gate, down steps and across a footbridge, Go through a further gate and slightly left up the field to another gate. Go through this and continue with hedge on your right into the nest field. Continue with the hedge on you right to steps leading to a gate. Continue through the gate to a further gate and continue through this uphill with a pond to your left, the path running slightly below the post and wire fence on your right. Go through a agte into another field and follow the path downhill as it curves initially right and then straightens to a further gate. Ignoring options to right and left go through this gate (signed Circular Path) and follow the path slightly rightwards to a further gate. Go through this and passing Apple Cottage on the right come out along Pages Lane to The Green. Continue along the road from Pages Lane across the Green and turn right uphill to reach the Methodist Church on the left of the road after a short distance. On leaving the Methodist Church turn right and follow the road down the hill to Church Lane, the first turning on the right. Go down Church Lane to reach the Church of St John the Baptist, Hornton.
HORNTON TO ALKERTON
From the Church return along Church Lane to the main road and turn right. Continue past the Primary School. As the main road bends left continue straight on to West End (The Dun Cow Pub is a few metres down West End to the right) and the Children's Playground. Cross West End and take the bridleway (marked D'Arcy Dalton Way) with the Children's Playground on you right. Follow the bridleway as it curves right uphill (ignore the footpath to your left) and becomes an often muddy hollow way. Continue as the bridleway turns left towards Hornton Grounds Farm. Go through the farmyard with barns on your left and continue on the track as it curves rightwards and then turns sharp right. Turn left to reach to the A422. Turn right and cross the road at some stage before the turning to Shutford and the Recycling Centre. Take this turning and continue to the Recycling Centre and then beyond this for about 600 metres to a stile on the right side of the road with a sign to Alkerton. Cross the stile and continue through two gates, after the latter of which the path curves left and downhill onto a track. Continue leftwards on this track and very shortly turn right and right again into the drive of the Old Rectory which leads you to the gate of the churchyard of St Michael's, Alkerton and then to the Church.
ALKERTON TO SHENINGTON
On coming out of the Churchyard turn right immediately and go down the steps. At the bottom of the steps turn right and continue to the gate and stile. Go over the stile and between the buildings to reach a gate with a barn on the left. Go through the gate and after about 70 metres turn left with a fence on your left. At the fence corner (footpath marker) go half left down the field to a gate. Go through the gate and along the path for about 50 metre to a stile. Cross this and go up the field past trees on the right. Continue through a gate to a road. Turn right and continue for about 40 metres. Cross the road to reach Chapel Lane and the gate into th churchyard of Holy Trinity, Shenington. The Church is a little further on to the right.
SHENINGTON TO BALSCOTE
Leave the Church ans turn to leave the church by the west gate. From this gate continue on across the front of Senendone House and turn left. Follow the road past Green End Cottage and Mizpah Cottage on your right and Honeysuckle Cottage on your left to reach a gate. Go through this gate and continue for about 70 metres as it curves right to a gate and stile on the left. Go through the gate and cross the stile and continue downhill aiming half right to a gate in the bottom corner of the field. Turn left at the gate and go into the next field. Go across this field 1/4 right and cross the stile at the hedge, Cross the stile and turn left shortly and then right up a stepped stone path and past a tennis court to the right. Continue to a gate. Go through this and turn right. Go through a further gateand over a stile and follow the path as it curves left. Pass under telegraph lines keeping the trees on your left. Follow the track as it curves left towards a gate. Go through the gate and go slightly leftwards up the hill to reach a stile leading onto a road.. Cross the stile and turn right. Continue to the turning to Balscote about 250 metres on to the left. Take this turning and follow the road into Baldscote. Turn right and then left to reach the Church of St Mary Magdalene.
BALSCOTE TO WROXTON
Leaving the Church turn right and then left out of the churchyard At the Butcher;s Arms on the right turn left down Manor Farm Road . continue through the Green, Just after after the Green turn right onto a concrete track. There is a footpath sign on the left at the entry to this track and on the right hand a sign in stone for Round Hill House and Manor Farm Office. Continue on this track until you reach a road. Turn left and follow the road until after about 250 metres you reach a gate on the right hand side of the road which leads you into a quarry.
Go through the quarry working . The direct route may be subject to diversion, in which case you will probably have to turn immediately left, then after a distance turn right, walk along a field edge, turning right again and then left. Turn left and then half right across field to a gap in hedge, Go through this. At the old signpost cross the road ahead of you and turn right along 422. Turn first right into Main Street and continue past the Primary School on your right to the duck pond, Passing this, take the right fork and continue down Church Street (passing the gates of Wroxton College on the right) to reach at a leftwards bend the Church of All Saints, Wroxton.
WROXTON TO DRAYTON
Retrace your steps along Chruch Street to the Gates of Wroxton Coleege (on your left). Immedioatley after th gate turn left up Darl \lane.
WROXTON TO DRAYTON
Turn right out of the church and left out of the churchyard. After a few meters follow Church Street round a right-hand bend and continue to the gates of Wroxton College on the left of the road. Dark Lane runs to the right of the gates as you face them. Go down Dark Lane and where the road bends right turn left onto a footpath (there is a footpath sign at this point on the right side of Dark Lane indicating Banbury 3). Follow the path as it curves rightwards past steps up to a house on the right and a gate into Wroxton College on the left grounds on the left to reach a kissing gate. Go through this and up the slope towards the tower. Turn left at the tower and continue to a gate in the fence to your right (footpath marker). Go through the gate and ¾ left down the hill. Cross a stile to reach a lake and continue with a metal fence on your left. At the end of the lake go 1/2 left up hill towards the obelisk. Cross a stile and continue to the obelisk. Follow the track (aiming slightly to the right of a folly in the tree-line on the hill ahead) down to a bridge. Cross the bridge and continue on, ignoring a gate to the left. Go to the corner of the wood on your left and then turn left and continue, skirting the wood on your left. At the far corner of the wood take the path ½ right up the slope to a gate. Go through the gate and slightly rightwards to the next gate. Go through this and straight across the field to a stile (St Peter’s Churc) is on your right). Cross the stile and turn left and then right up the hill to a gate in the field corner. Go through the gate, turn right and then immediately right again down the road, with Glebefields are Home above you to the left, to St Peter’s Church, Drayton.
DRAYTON TO HANWELL
Retrace your steps up the road from the Church and continue until you reach the main road. Arden Close is opposite on the other side of the road. Cross the road, turn left and continue to Metcalfe Close just after the Village Hall on your right. Cross Metcalfe Close and enter Queens Lane (thatched Ivy Cottage to the left). When the metalled road ends, continue on the bridleway, through (or round) a gate and down the track as it curves rightwards between fences. Go past a gate on your right and slightly leftwards to cross a track leading into a grove of tress on your left. Continue past the trees and up the slope slightly rightwards and go on with a lake below you on the left until you reach a grit track follow this rightwards and then leftwards until you reach a further track Turn right and then first left. Pass the bungalow ahead of you on its left, keeping the hedge close to you on your right. Where the grass ends, cross the track and continue on the same line towards the hedge and main road beyond, Go through the hedge via a footbridge and turn left. Almost immediately, just after the gates on the verges and the unrestricted speed signs, turn right across the road and go through the hedge at a sign indicating Hanwell ½. Go 3/4 left across the field to a gap in the trees and, going through the tress, continue half right across the field. On leaving the field via a gap in the hedge, cross the track in front of you (Gullicote Lane) and turn roughly ½ left at a footpath marker with Hanwell Church ahead of you. Continue to and through a gate and then on in the same direction to the south gate of the churchyard of St Peter’s Church. Hanwell. Go past the west end of the Church and turn right to reach the north door.
HANWELL TO HORLEY
Leave St Peter's by the north door and turn left. Continue up Church Lane to reach the main road. Cross the road, Cross this, turn left and continue to the Village Hall on the right. Cross the track which runs to the right just beyond the Village Hall and go through the hedge (there is a footpath sign) into a field. Cross the field half right. At the far right corner go through the hedge to reach the B4100. Cross this road and continue on the road opposite towards Horley (the left-hand verge may at times feel the safer option). Having pssed the cricket ground on the right turn right at the Red Lion pub and go up the road via the footway on the right, past the churchyard to the left left. Take the first left turn to reach St Etheldreda's, Horley.
HORLEY TO HORNTON
On leaving the Church by the west door turn left at the road and continue to where the road turns left. At the corner go up the steps on the right and over a stile. Continue with the hedge to your immediate right to another stile. Go over this and down the slope, skirting bushes and trees on your right and then, after the bushes and trees, go 3/4 right to a stile. Cross this and follow the path downwards, across a small stream and then upwards into a field. With a barn 1/2 right ahead of you, go up across the field, initially straight on and then curving right, to a gap in the hedge. Go through this and continue half right to the hedge in the direction to the right of two telegraph poles ahead of you. Cross the stile in the hedge and turn left down the lane (Clump Lane). After abut 70 metres turn right through a gate into a field. Go half left across the field. Go through a gate, down steps and across a footbridge, Go through a further gate and slightly left up the field to another gate. Go through this and continue with hedge on your right into the nest field. Continue with the hedge on you right to steps leading to a gate. Continue through the gate to a further gate and continue through this uphill with a pond to your left, the path running slightly below the post and wire fence on your right. Go through a agte into another field and follow the path downhill as it curves initially right and then straightens to a further gate. Ignoring options to right and left go through this gate (signed Circular Path) and follow the path slightly rightwards to a further gate. Go through this and passing Apple Cottage on the right come out along Pages Lane to The Green. Continue along the road from Pages Lane across the Green and turn right uphill to reach the Methodist Church on the left of the road after a short distance. On leaving the Methodist Church turn right and follow the road down the hill to Church Lane, the first turning on the right. Go down Church Lane to reach the Church of St John the Baptist, Hornton.
HORNTON TO ALKERTON
From the Church return along Church Lane to the main road and turn right. Continue past the Primary School. As the main road bends left continue straight on to West End (The Dun Cow Pub is a few metres down West End to the right) and the Children's Playground. Cross West End and take the bridleway (marked D'Arcy Dalton Way) with the Children's Playground on you right. Follow the bridleway as it curves right uphill (ignore the footpath to your left) and becomes an often muddy hollow way. Continue as the bridleway turns left towards Hornton Grounds Farm. Go through the farmyard with barns on your left and continue on the track as it curves rightwards and then turns sharp right. Turn left to reach to the A422. Turn right and cross the road at some stage before the turning to Shutford and the Recycling Centre. Take this turning and continue to the Recycling Centre and then beyond this for about 600 metres to a stile on the right side of the road with a sign to Alkerton. Cross the stile and continue through two gates, after the latter of which the path curves left and downhill onto a track. Continue leftwards on this track and very shortly turn right and right again into the drive of the Old Rectory which leads you to the gate of the churchyard of St Michael's, Alkerton and then to the Church.
ALKERTON TO SHENINGTON
On coming out of the Churchyard turn right immediately and go down the steps. At the bottom of the steps turn right and continue to the gate and stile. Go over the stile and between the buildings to reach a gate with a barn on the left. Go through the gate and after about 70 metres turn left with a fence on your left. At the fence corner (footpath marker) go half left down the field to a gate. Go through the gate and along the path for about 50 metre to a stile. Cross this and go up the field past trees on the right. Continue through a gate to a road. Turn right and continue for about 40 metres. Cross the road to reach Chapel Lane and the gate into th churchyard of Holy Trinity, Shenington. The Church is a little further on to the right.
SHENINGTON TO BALSCOTE
Leave the Church ans turn to leave the church by the west gate. From this gate continue on across the front of Senendone House and turn left. Follow the road past Green End Cottage and Mizpah Cottage on your right and Honeysuckle Cottage on your left to reach a gate. Go through this gate and continue for about 70 metres as it curves right to a gate and stile on the left. Go through the gate and cross the stile and continue downhill aiming half right to a gate in the bottom corner of the field. Turn left at the gate and go into the next field. Go across this field 1/4 right and cross the stile at the hedge, Cross the stile and turn left shortly and then right up a stepped stone path and past a tennis court to the right. Continue to a gate. Go through this and turn right. Go through a further gateand over a stile and follow the path as it curves left. Pass under telegraph lines keeping the trees on your left. Follow the track as it curves left towards a gate. Go through the gate and go slightly leftwards up the hill to reach a stile leading onto a road.. Cross the stile and turn right. Continue to the turning to Balscote about 250 metres on to the left. Take this turning and follow the road into Baldscote. Turn right and then left to reach the Church of St Mary Magdalene.
BALSCOTE TO WROXTON
Leaving the Church turn right and then left out of the churchyard At the Butcher;s Arms on the right turn left down Manor Farm Road . continue through the Green, Just after after the Green turn right onto a concrete track. There is a footpath sign on the left at the entry to this track and on the right hand a sign in stone for Round Hill House and Manor Farm Office. Continue on this track until you reach a road. Turn left and follow the road until after about 250 metres you reach a gate on the right hand side of the road which leads you into a quarry.
Go through the quarry working . The direct route may be subject to diversion, in which case you will probably have to turn immediately left, then after a distance turn right, walk along a field edge, turning right again and then left. Turn left and then half right across field to a gap in hedge, Go through this. At the old signpost cross the road ahead of you and turn right along 422. Turn first right into Main Street and continue past the Primary School on your right to the duck pond, Passing this, take the right fork and continue down Church Street (passing the gates of Wroxton College on the right) to reach at a leftwards bend the Church of All Saints, Wroxton.
WROXTON TO DRAYTON
Retrace your steps along Chruch Street to the Gates of Wroxton Coleege (on your left). Immedioatley after th gate turn left up Darl \lane.