Redbourne

Start - Village green near the Red Lion pub, DN21 4QR

• 1
  Cross the main road opposite the Red Lion and follow the footpath sign along Vicarage Lane.
• 2
  At the lane end, turn left at the way mark round the edge of the recreation area, bearing to the right to a kissing gate in the churchyard wall.
• 3
  Go through and follow the path round a bend and then across an arable field.
• 4
  At the path junction, turn right and walk with a dyke on your left to the corner of the Hall grounds.
• 5
  Turn left here on a wide path, passing the Hall, and later a wall on your right and a wood on your left to Gingerbread Cottage.
• 6
  Bear left past the cottage and in a few metres turn left into a lane.
• 7
  Follow this lane to a bridge, cross it and turn immediately right following a good field headland path with a stream on your right. This path exits through an old orchard into a lane.
• 8
  This is River Head, turn left and follow the lane with the old airfield on the right.
• 9
  Turn left along a tarmac lane and back to the bridge at point 7, cross the bridge and turn right down a path with the stream on your right, through a thicket to a wooden footbridge with one handrail.
• 10
  Cross the bridge over one stream and keep to the left of another stream.
• 11
  At a fingerpost follow the sign to Carr Lane over a bridge with a pumping station on your right. Turn immediately left down a lane and at the end of the lane follow a path with a tall hedge on your left.
• 12
  Enter School Land and follow it to the main road, cross this back to the start.