Pontesbury Walks You Don’T Need Special Equipment and There Aren’T Any Joining Fees

Taking the first step Pontesbury Walks You don’t need special equipment and there aren’t any joining fees. You can walk almost anywhere, and 1 The Old Railway line • 1 /2 miles – stile free! being outside with nature helps you relax and forget about the stresses and strains of every day life! Pontesford Brook • 2 miles – stile free! NB: Parts of this walk can be very muddy! It’s never too late Start at your own level There is no such thing as “too old to Start at a level that suits you; there is no exercise”. Whatever your age or current point wearing yourself out on your first level of fitness you can benefit from doing walk. Start gradually, set yourself small a bit more physical activity. Try to get out targets and goals, and build slowly from and walk as much as possible within your there; small changes can make a big own limitations. difference, the most important thing is to make a start. Build it into your daily routine Any activity is better than none; but to get Listen to your body the most benefit you need to do at least If you feel any dizziness or pain whilst 30 minutes moderate physical activity on walking, slow down or stop completely at least 5 days of the week. and take a rest. If the problem continues, consult your doctor before walking again. Moderate activity is anything which involves: Keep active and keep the benefits • Breathing a little faster Any health benefits you have gained will • Having a slightly faster heart beat be lost if you don’t continue to be active. • Feeling warmer If you would prefer to walk in a group why not join the You should aim to reach a single session Pontesbury Walking for Health group, who meet for Do you feel the need to get some fresh air? Then try one of the ‘Pontesbury of 30 minutes but you can break this short walks each week. For more information on the Walks’. down into Walking for Health group or the Parish Paths Partnership • 3 x 10 minutes please contact: The walks have been suggested by the Pontesbury Parish Paths Partnership • 2 x 15 minutes group who meet each Tuesday to carry out remedial work on the footpaths Walking for Life! in the parish. Artwork by MA Creative • www.macreative.co.uk Countryside Access Team, Shropshire Council On each of the ‘Pontesbury Walks’ you can experience views of the church, The publishers have made every effort to ensure the information in this village and the hills beyond. Keep an eye out for local wildlife too you may publication was correct at the time of printing. If you have any comments Tel: 01743 255059 regarding this publication please contact Shropshire County Council. catch a glimpse of a kingfisher, buzzard or hare along the way!

walk down Hall Bank until you reach a kissing embankment on your left. PONTESFORD gate on your right (just after the bus shelter) BROOK B Descend the steps (take care they can be 2 Turn right through the kissing gate and into slippy) to a gate by the Pontesford Brook. the field. Continue along the fence line of the Once through the gate follow the path along houses on your left to another kissing gate the field edge, with the brook on your right, B ahead of you to a gate onto Hinton Lane Playground along old railway 4 between points 3–4 3 A 5 Lower Mill Once through the kissing gate turn right C Turn left along Hinton Lane and continue for Roseville Hinton Lane LINE Pontesford onto the old railway line. Continue past the AY B A approximately 20 minutes until you reach its Bridge LW C K

playground, over Hinton Lane bridge, past L A junction with Hall Bank OLD RAI N Roseville (Rose Cottage where Mary Webb E wrote her first novels) until you reach the D Turn right onto Hall Bank and back to 3 junction with Back Lane Pontesbury Medical Centre on your right. Playground S TAT 4 Turn right up Back Lane for approximately ION ROAD A488 100 metres until you see a footpath sign Start 1 HALL through a gate into a field on your right 2 BANK A488 hand side D CHURCH 6 5 Turn right through the gate into the field and Public Home Farm continue straight ahead following the hedge Convenience 8 S HR line on your left. You will pass through three E WSBURY ROAD 7 Playing more gates, onto a narrow path that leads to School Field another gate onto a track. Hall Bank between Pontesbury points 1–2 6 Once on the track continue straight ahead towards the Shrewsbury road (Main Road) 7 When you reach the road turn right towards KEY TO MAP Earlsdale School the village centre and continue to the junction Walk 1: Pontesbury Old Railway Line with Hall Bank Gate off Back Lane at point 5 8 Follow the pavement around to the right onto Walk 2: Pontesford Brook Junction with Back Lane at pointHill 4 Farm Hall Bank and continue back to Pontesbury START: Pontesbury Medical Practice House Other paths Gate at point 1 Medical Practice on your right hand side. Fishpool Farm PONTESFORD HILL Taking the first step Pontesbury Walks You don’t need special equipment and there aren’t any joining fees. You can walk almost anywhere, and Earlsdale Pools • 2 miles – stile free! being outside with nature helps you relax and forget about the stresses and strains of every day life! NB: Parts of this walk can be very muddy!

It’s never too late Start at your own level There is no such thing as “too old to Start at a level that suits you; there is no exercise”. Whatever your age or current point wearing yourself out on your first level of fitness you can benefit from doing walk. Start gradually, set yourself small a bit more physical activity. Try to get out targets and goals, and build slowly from and walk as much as possible within your there; small changes can make a big own limitations. difference, the most important thing is to make a start. Build it into your daily routine Any activity is better than none; but to get Listen to your body the most benefit you need to do at least If you feel any dizziness or pain whilst 30 minutes moderate physical activity on walking, slow down or stop completely at least 5 days of the week. and take a rest. If the problem continues, consult your doctor before walking again. Moderate activity is anything which involves: Keep active and keep the benefits • Breathing a little faster Any health benefits you have gained will • Having a slightly faster heart beat be lost if you don’t continue to be active. • Feeling warmer If you would prefer to walk in a group why not join the You should aim to reach a single session Pontesbury Walking for Health group, who meet for Do you feel the need to get some fresh air? Then try one of the ‘Pontesbury of 30 minutes but you can break this short walks each week. For more information on the Walks’. down into Walking for Health group or the Parish Paths Partnership • 3 x 10 minutes please contact: The walks have been suggested by the Pontesbury Parish Paths Partnership • 2 x 15 minutes group who meet each Tuesday to carry out remedial work on the footpaths Walking for Life! in the parish. Artwork by MA Creative • www.macreative.co.uk Countryside Access Team, Shropshire Council On each of the ‘Pontesbury Walks’ you can experience views of the church, The publishers have made every effort to ensure the information in this village and the hills beyond. Keep an eye out for local wildlife too you may publication was correct at the time of printing. If you have any comments Tel: 01743 255059 regarding this publication please contact Shropshire County Council. catch a glimpse of a kingfisher, buzzard or hare along the way!

The materials needed for Walking is fun, free and can be done anywhere this improvement has kindly been supplied by Tarmac Quarries to benefit the people of Pontesbury’ Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. Shropshire County Council 100019801. 2009 Walk 1: Pontesbury Old Railway Line Earlsdale Pool # Go through the gate into the wooded area and 1 2 /2 miles • Stile Free Walk 2: Pontesfordturn right andBrook follow the track through the car park to a road Start: Pontesbury Medical Other paths$ When you reach theGate road turn right for Practice (NB the surgery car park is approximately 50m until you see a track on your for patients only, if you need to park left please do so in the village) % Turn left onto the track and follow it back on Back Lane approaching Main Road Bear left to Earlsdale pools at yourself, until you reach a gate across a field on before point 5 point 7 1 Turn right out of Pontesbury Medical Practice and your right START: Pontesbury Medical Practice walk down Hall Bank until you reach a kissing gate Lower Mill & Go through the gate and follow the path across the 4 on your right (just after the bus shelter) Roseville field to a kissing gate Hinton Lane LINE Pontesford AY B A Bridge LW C K 2 Turn right through the kissing gate and into the L ( Go through the kissing gate and turn right A OLD RAI N field. Continue along the fence line of the houses E and continue until you E N on your left to another kissing gate ahead of you 3 A reach Bogey Lane L PONTESFORD 3 Once through the kissing gate turn right onto the ) Turn left onto Bogey Playground N BROOK O 5 S TAT old railway line. Continue past the playground, T Lane and continue past ION ROAD N over Hinton Lane bridge, past Roseville (Rose I the school, library and Start H 6 Cottage where Mary Webb wrote her first novels) cemetery to Chapel Street 1 HALL until you reach the junction with Back Lane 2 BANK Old Railway Line 4 K * Turn left onto Chapel 19 R OR PA 4 Turn right up Back Lane and continue along the N Street and then A lane until you reach the main road in Pontesford. M CHURCH immediately right onto A488 Home Farm

5 Turn right and carefully cross the road and Stalleon Lane Public Convenience T

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continue for approximately 100 metres to a road R

+ Continue past the church T N 18 S Playing A on your left ST L L on your right and past ALLEON E Field P School A Y LANE E 6 Turn left up the road and continue for Manor Park to the CH Cemetry G O approximately 500 metres until you reach another junction 17 B 7 lane on your left (marked as a Bridleway). , At the junction turn 16 8 7 Turn left on to the lane and continue for 50 metres right back up Hall Bank Library Pontesbury 13 until you see a track branching off the right (take care on the narrow School 9 8 Keep to the right hand track, and continue past the pavement) to Pontesbury 15 11 Medical Centre on your Earlsdale pool on your right 12 left. 14 10 Look out for coots, moorhens and various Hill Farm PONTESFORD ducks and geese on these pools. Ravens and House HILL buzzards are also seen above the trees on Fishpool Pontesford Hill. KEY TO MAP Farm 9 At the top of the rise turn right (also signposted as a bridleway) and continue along the track for Other paths approximately 100 metres to a gate on your right by a pool. Gates Gate off Hall Bank at point 2 ! Turn right through the gate and across the field to Stiles Track leading to Bogey another gate into a wooded area. Lane from point ( View to Pool below between points ! and # Footbridge Taking the first step Pontesbury Walks You don’t need special equipment and there aren’t any joining fees. You can walk almost anywhere, and 1 Rea Brook 2 /2 miles • 11 double – step stiles being outside with nature helps you relax and forget about the stresses and strains of every day life! NB: Parts of this walk can be very muddy!

It’s never too late Start at your own level There is no such thing as “too old to Start at a level that suits you; there is no Do you feel the need to get exercise”. Whatever your age or current point wearing yourself out on your first some fresh air? Then try one level of fitness you can benefit from doing walk. Start gradually, set yourself small of the ‘Pontesbury Walks’. a bit more physical activity. Try to get out targets and goals, and build slowly from and walk as much as possible within your there; small changes can make a big own limitations. difference, the most important thing is to The walks have been make a start. suggested by the Pontesbury Build it into your daily routine Parish Paths Partnership Any activity is better than none; but to get Listen to your body group who meet each the most benefit you need to do at least If you feel any dizziness or pain whilst Tuesday to carry out remedial 30 minutes moderate physical activity on walking, slow down or stop completely work on the footpaths in the at least 5 days of the week. and take a rest. If the problem continues, parish. consult your doctor before walking again. Moderate activity is anything which involves: Keep active and keep the benefits On each of the ‘Pontesbury • Breathing a little faster Any health benefits you have gained will Walks’ you can experience • Having a slightly faster heart beat be lost if you don’t continue to be active. views of the church, village • Feeling warmer and the hills beyond. Keep an If you would prefer to walk in a group why not join the eye out for local wildlife too You should aim to reach a single session Pontesbury Walking for Health group, who meet for you may catch a glimpse of of 30 minutes but you can break this short walks each week. For more information on the a kingfisher, buzzard or hare down into Walking for Health group or the Parish Paths Partnership • 3 x 10 minutes please contact: along the way! • 2 x 15 minutes Walking for Life! Artwork by MA Creative • www.macreative.co.uk Countryside Access Team,

The publishers have made every effort to ensure the information in this Shropshire Council publication was correct at the time of printing. If you have any comments Tel: 01743 255059 regarding this publication please contact Shropshire County Council.

The materials needed for Walking is fun, free and can be done anywhere this improvement has kindly been supplied by Tarmac Quarries to benefit the people of Pontesbury’ Crown Copyright. All rights reserved. Shropshire County Council 100019801. 2009 1 Walk 1: Pontesbury Old Railway Line Rea Brook • 2 /2 miles $ Go over the stile and turn left onto Hinton Lane Caution – Steep banks and deep 11 double-step stiles Walk 2: Pontesfordand then immediately Brook right through a gate into a water next to the brook field Other paths Gate Start: Pontesbury Medical % Continue across the field picking up the footpath 8 Practice (NB the surgery car park is along the embankment of the brook, and continue REA BROOK for patients only, if you need to park to a gate at the bottom of some steps 7 please do so in the village) & Walk up the steps onto the old railway 6 1 Turn right out of Pontesbury Medical Practice car ( Turn right onto the old railway and continue along the old railway for approximately 25 minutes, In between points ! park and walk down Hall Bank. Please take care 5 and # on narrow footpath. over Hinton Lane bridge, past the playground until you come to a 4 2 Take the first road on the right (Station Road) and E kissing gate on your left N A L continue along Station Road for approximately 15 3 ) Turn left through the kissing N O minutes until you see a stile in the hedge on your T gate, past the line of houses on N right I PONTESFORD H your right to another kissing Point 5 BROOK 3 Cross over the stile into the field, and walk straight gate in front of you ahead across the field to another stile ahead of you * Once through the gate turn left up Hall Bank and back to 4 Cross over the stile and walk diagonally left, Pontesbury Medical Practice to S T towards the corner off the field where you will see A your left. T I another stile onto a track O N

R 5 Cross over the stile, straight across the track, over O A

D Lower Mill another stile into a field Roseville Hinton Lane LINE Pontesford AY B A 6 Follow the hedge line to a stile and footbridge in Bridge LW C K

L A OLD RAI N the bottom right hand corner of the field. E 7 Cross over the stiles and footbridge continue straight ahead, following the hedge line on your Playground S right to another stile TAT ION ROAD A488

8 Cross over the stile, footbridge and second stile Gate off Station Road at Start 1 point 3 HALL into the next field BANK A488 2 9 Once over the bridge turn left and follow the Pontesbury CHURCH footpath along the banks of the brook (brook on Public Home Farm your left), and continue across field to a stile KEY TO MAP Convenience ! Once over the stile continue across the field, Other paths $ keeping the brook on your left until you see a stile Gate at point off Hinton Lane in fence in front of you Gates # Go over the double stile and bridge and continue Stiles straight ahead towards a gate onto Hinton Lane START: Pontesbury Medical Practice Earlsdale Gate before point & Footbridge at point 1

Hill Farm House Fishpool Farm PONTESFORD HILL