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Circular Walks Hilltop Farm Wildlife at Hilltop Wildlife at Hilltop The Warwickshire countryside is filled with an abundance of beautiful plants, birds, animals and bugs all year round – particularly in © Joyce James 2018 the spring and summer. Can you help Harry the Hilltop Farm Hilltop Farm Hedgehog find these lovely things? Hilltop Farm is a 300-acre working family farm. The Ellis family have farmed the Cow parsley land here for four generations, producing Circular Walks Hilltop Farm arable crops like oilseed rape, wheat, oats and barley as well as outdoor-bred and 4km / 8km © Philip Precey 2018 © Philip Precey pasture-fed beef and lamb. Small tortoiseshell The farmland stretches down from Hunningham Hill butterfly Dunsmore Living to the River Leam that flows through the meadows Landscape area in Hunningham village. © Friends of the RA 2018 © Friends The farm shop and café opened in 2003 to meet the growing demand for top quality local produce 7 spot ladybird bought straight from the farmer. Hilltop has continued to grow ever since, with its café providing the perfect spot to enjoy fine local food with a spectacular view. 2018 © Morven Kynoch Hilltop Farm Fosse Way Hideaways - providing on-site glamping in a bell Yellowhammer Leamington Spa tents, wood cabins, shepherds huts or bring your Warwickshire own tent pitches - opened in 2015, so you can stay CV33 9EL and soak up the countryside even longer! 01926 632978 www.hilltopfarmshop.com See www.hilltopfarmshop.com and © Darin Smith 2018 © 2018 Warwickshire Wildlife Trust Wildlife © 2018 Warwickshire www.hilltophideaways.com Oak tree leaf warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk James 2018 © Joyce exploredunsmore.org ©Rock and wasp 2018 Wappenbury Hall 3 Welcome 45 Wappenbury B4 10 11 Welcome to Hilltop Farm Shop & Cafe, Iron Age Hillfort 12 Hilltop to Hunningham thanks for stopping by. H Weston under u This leaflet has n Length: 4km n 13 been created in 9 i Wetherley n Leam Bank collaboration with g Hunningham is a beautiful, traditional English village h Farm with some fantastic historical buildings, including a Warwickshire a Wildlife Trust as part m 13th century church and a 16th century pub. of the Dunsmore R 1 Head out from Hilltop café down the hill. Follow Living Landscape o (DLL) scheme to a the hedge line round and take the track on your left d provide you with 2 down to the road. 3 Turn right at the road and some information about the local area and a couple of then 4 follow the left fork past the houses. Take the walks to help guide you if you would like to explore. footpath on your left down to the river, following the Hunningham field edge. 5 Turn right at the River Leam and follow Hilltop Farm lies at the southern edge of the Dunsmore 7 Farm the path along the river past 6 St Margaret’s Church Living Landscape, a precious slice of countryside rich to the pub 7 . Retrace your steps back or via 15 Hunningham Meadow Nature Reserve. in wildlife and accessible to all. From the outskirts of 8 14 Coventry and Leamington over to the ancient Fosse Way, discover a wooded heartland bursting with life, Bridge linked by a network of hedgerows and meadows. Farm Bridge The Three Villages Walk Barn Get up close to nature, immerse yourself in the past Hunningham Length: 8km and find your own connection to the landscape. For more information, please visit exploredunsmore.org 6 If you are feeling more adventurous, you can take the Mound longer walk and follow the footpath up to Weston Key 15 Under Wetherley, up and around to Wappenbury and then back into Hunningham. Start / Finish L 5 o Follow the short loop to the pub 7 and turn left at the n road. Go over the bridge and follow the road around to Hilltop to Hunningham 4km circular walk ver L g Ri e 4 8 I the right and then take the path on your left . Stick a Hill View t m c to the right hand path through fields, heading towards The Three Villages 8km circular walk h 5 i 5 3 n 4the church, until you get to the road at Weston under Coventry Way Footpath g 4 Wetherley 9 . Turn right at the road and follow it t o B d n until you get to the junction with Hunningham Road a Heritage site Nature reserve o R 10 . Cross over carefully and take the path on your R 2 d left. Follow the path keeping to the right 11 , towards Place of worship Public house h 12 c Wappenbury village. Before St Annes Church r Hunningham turn sharply right and follow the bridleway over the Woodland Viewpoint u h river 13 back to Hunningham village. 14 Turn right c Hill f 1 Gate Waymarker post 500m f and follow the road signposted to Hunningham and O Offchurch at the junction. Stop by 15 Hunningham 1000ft Hilltop Farm Meadow Nature Reserve on your way back to Hilltop Shop and Café Farm Shop and Cafe..
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