Village Walks

We are very fortunate around Cleeve Prior to have a wide and varied network of footpaths including the Avon Way. You can very easily plan your own walk using the Worcester County Council Interactive footpath Map 

                                       


Walks Round Cleeve Prior

1.   A Circular Historical Walk [link]
                             

2.   A  Nature Walk Around Cleeve Prior- the Green Link [link]


                               
3.  Walkers Walks

Mike and Bridgett Walker have kindly outlined two walks from the Village Green, both between 1 and 1½ hours. They ask that walkers leave all gates as they find them. When walking permissive paths and when they pass people’s gardens, please respect the owners’ privacy. During the ‘shut down’ no maintenance work has been allowed so they are often overgrown. It might be worth taking secateurs with you!

Walk No.1
                                                      

                                                                                           
Leave the Village Green on your left and walk down past the school, cross Hoden Lane to a waymarked footpath through a five barred gate beside “The Mill House” and straight on to a gap in the stone wall. Follow the path to a gate on to a track beside the field to the top.

Turn right over a broken-down stile, then left and left again through a gate.

Turn right with the hedge on your right follow this up a slight incline (there may be sheep in the field so keep dogs on the lead). Stop at the top and admire the views all around. Keep in the same direction and go straight down the hill to a small field gate into another field (there may be sheep) and look ahead for a marker post; keeping this to your left head for a field gate.

Cross a wooden bridge and turn right along a grassy track beside a brook, cross an open ditch, to another footbridge and a tarmac road (Hoden Lane).

Bearing slightly to the left, cross the road, and through two straw bales, follow the track with the hedge and brook on your right to a footbridge and gate in the corner of the field and continue along the right hand hedge(there may be cows in his field), over a little footbridge, until you reach an awkward stile into an orchard. At the second stile out of the orchard, turn left onto a track.

At the tarmac road (signed Eastside) turn right and right again on to a signed bridleway. Carry on along this until you come to a wooden bridge. Cross it and turn left, follow this hedge until you go over a concrete bridge and through a large open gateway onto a farm track.

At the T junction turn right and follow the track until you reach a kissing gate and bridge, and footpath between two fields, at the end of which is Quarry Lane.

Continue on until you arrive back at the Village Green.

Walk No.2
                                                  

From the Village Green go through the churchyard, with the church on your left, following the tarmac path straight through and down the narrow passage to the main road. Turn left into Manor Court and walking straight on, look for a dog leg permissive foot path in to the Manor Complex. Beware you do not walk up someone’s drive. (please respect the residents’ privacy). In the centre follow the graved area to the right and down the main  Manor’s  drive to the main road.

Here you turn left, and watching for traffic cross the road after about 20 yards and over a stile. Walk beside the field to the top corner, and turn left, keeping the hedge on your right, head for the large gap. Look straight ahead and you should see a yellow topped waymark post, and stile.

Go over the stile and keep the hedges and fields with (possibly) Annie’s Highland Cattle, to your left. She does sell her beef and lamb. Pass some farm buildings and look for a gap in the hedge on the left, cross a little bridge and turn right onto a track and pass Clink Cottages.

Follow this farm track to Sixteen Acres Lane and bear left along the lane to meet the main road at the Marcliff bends on the main road; keep right and cross, very carefully, at the right hand bend and leaving the main road follow the Bank down to the old village. Turn left at a thatched cottage onto a grassy track (where the road bends to the right), through a gate and up some steps (on the Marl Cliff). Go straight ahead and over three stiles, along a well-trodden footpath to a small old orchard. Continue straight on to a field, and turn left and follow the hedge on the left of this field to a kissing gate, straight on until the next kissing gate into a field of ponies (very friendly), a kissing gate, bridge and the fields behind the Manor and thence into the churchyard.

Walks around Cleeve Prior from other Contributors

From Walking Britain

River Avon & Cleeve Prior from Bidford-on-Avon
Introduction to Walk 3246 [link]

 

County/Area - Warwickshire

Author - Lou Johnson

Length - 4.5 miles / 7.3 km

Ascent - 150 feet / 45 metres

Time    - 2 hours 20 minutes

Grade  – easy

 

Bidford-Cleeve Prior - Bidford

This Warwickshire walk from Bidford-on-Avon follows a picturesque section of the River Avon downstream to Cleeve Prior. The walk continues past a fine manor house and over rolling countryside to reach the pretty village of Marlcliff with its half-timbered cottages. A GPS File is available for download (see walk description).

 

Link-Walk details                           Link-Description Map showing start

 

From Cleeveprior.weebly.com

2 circular walks, one starting in Barton, second in Middle Littleton, both  to be found at
https://cleeveprior.weebly.com/cleeve-prior-walks.html

 

Happy Walking