Keinton Mandeville, Charlton Mackrell 6.1 miles

Grade - 1

Abbreviations are H = half, R = right, L = left, FP= footpath

1)
From the car park at Charltons Community Centre Ref ST533 289 TR and follow the road under the railway bridge. Take 1st FP on R and follow the enclosed path for 150m, it then turns sharp R for 70m. TL into a field, follow the boundary keeping hedge on L to exit onto a track. TL and follow L boundary for 1 field. At corner TR for a few metres then TL through a hedge and with the boundary on your R head to the road.

2) Grid ref ST533 307
TR for 70m then take the next FP on the R. Follow this stony track which bears R towards the end into a field. Bear half L to cross the field heading towards houses. You reach a lane but do not cross into it, TL to follow the hedge on your R to the corner of the field where there are telegraph poles. Take the stile on R and cross the field to the L of the building to emerge on the lane to Keinton Mandeville.

3) Grid ref ST545 301
Follow this lane passing the school to a T junction with a post box. TL here then TR at the 1st FP sign posted Babcary Lane. Follow this to T junction then TR. After 100m TR through a metal gate in the hedgerow. You are now on the Macmillan Way. Follow the hedge on the R and go through a metal gate, which brings you into Keinton Mandeville. TR and keeping the same direction follow Church St, (signed Charlton 1 ½). Take 1st FP L to the Church. Exit the Church and maintain direction to cross a field still following the Macmillan Way. Cross next field with the hedge on your L. Bear L in the 3rd field to cross a style into a copse. Cross a bridge over stream and cross the field to a stile to the L of Newcombe Farm.

4) Grid ref ST543 296
TL under the railway and continue through an overgrown track to a stile on R. Cross the field bearing L to the corner. Cross a stile a few metres from the corner. Cross 3 fields to emerge on a lane with a pub to the left. TL then TR just past the pumping station. Keep the hedge on R and continue to 1st stile on R. Continue to another stile entering a track leading to the road. Follow the road down High St. and George St, TR towards the Church then immediately L at FP. Cross 2 fields to the road TR and follow the road, keeping R, to the Community Centre.