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Skylark Tunnel Curdworth

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Getting here Curdworth is located near Junction 9 of the M42. A public car park can be found off Kingsbury Road near the King George V Playing Fields. This walk is served by Central Buses, services 75/75A and X16/16. Use the stop opposite the White Horse, Kingsbury Road (A4097), Curdworth. Check online for times. This guide is available to download from the website. For more information visit: tamevalleywetlands.co.uk [email protected] Facebook.com/tamevalleywetlands @thetamevalley

This walk has been created with assistance from:

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Curdworth Circular walk Distance: 9km (5.5 miles) Landscape and path type: stiles with rough ground when not Dogs: Permitted, under Allow: 2 hours Public footpaths. Open countryside, on roads. control at all times. towpath and village. There are three Ascent: 38m Map: OS 220 Birmingham, Walsall, pedestrian kissing gates and no Solihull & Redditch.

Directions: Section 1 Section 2 (Circular route through countryside) (Circular route through Curdworth Village) From Wishaw Lane, walk At the road side, turn Then north east, Follow the route From Broad Balk Bridge, of Coleshill Road, then 1down the steps before 3right and walk up hill 7towards Church Pit. 12back onto the canal turn left and head following Coleshill Road, Curdworth Bridge onto towards the village of Over towpath or follow the road towards Kingsbury south then bearing east At Church Lane, turn the Birmingham & Fazeley Green. Take some time to through the industrial Road (A4097). Turn left onto Marsh Lane. right and walk along the Canal towpath. At the enjoy the wide vistas over 8 area for a circuit through and follow the dual road east. Follow the way markers, bottom of the steps, turn the Midlands, looking out Curdworth Village (see carriageway for about down a set of steps and left and walk west along the for kestrels hunting over Continue along Church Section 2). Re-joining the 150m, until it ends and through a kissing gate canal towpath, following the the open fields. 9Lane , going straight canal, turn right along the you spot a way marking on to grazing land. Walk Tame Way. Pass beneath ahead at the staggered towpath, following the post on the opposite side At the T-junction is Pool up the slope through a Curdworth Church Bridge crossroads, past Rookery Tame Way, with the canal on of the road. Cross the Hall . Turn left briefly further three gates and then up onto Broad Balk 4 Cottages, for about 850m. your right hand side. After road and head through onto Curdworth Lane. kissing gates, reaching Bridge, after 600m. Look for the way marker almost 500m you will walk the gap in the hedge into Curdworth Primary Ahead is the The Cock post near the hedgerow and through Curdworth Tunnel the field. Turn left towards At Broad Balk Bridge, School. Walk down the Inn, a good point for the kissing gate, leading to (52m in length). You can by- Curdworth Village, turn right following 5 track until exiting onto 2 a halfway break. the footpath. To the left is pass the tunnel by climbing through a hedge and the way markers over Farthing Lane, turning a water run-off pool for the the steps to the left. across the King George V right towards Curdworth the bridge toward arable From The Cock Inn, Playing Fields towards M6 toll road. After passing either Hall Farm. farmland. Turn left here for follow the way marked Church Lane, passing 6 through or over Curdworth Curdworth circular route, route east through the car Walk south through between The Parish Upon reaching the Tunnel, carry on along see section 2. Follow the park back onto farmland, the arable field, Church of St. Nicolas and end of Farthing Lane 10 the towpath towards way marked route towards skirting the field edges, keeping to the marked St. Peter ad Vincula and a at Kingsbury Road Curdworth Bridge, returning the north, passing a wildlife across the field towards an routes. The Wilderness park on your right. (A4097), turn left towards pond on your right. Follow oak tree, passing a wildlife reservoir is on your right. to the start point of the Curdworth Village, after Follow the way markers the permissive path pond in the grounds of the circular walk. approx 200m cross the Carry on across the to the right, down a slope and turn left on the farm Old Rectory. road and walk through track towards Wiggin’s 11fields to Baylis’s and through a kissing the Fairview Industrial Hill Cottages. Bridge over the Birmingham gate to a housing estate, Estate, reaching the & Fazeley Canal. joining Oaklands. Walk Birmingham and Fazeley east in the direction Canal again after 330m.