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Walk Worcestershire Barnt Green Circular 6.5 miles Walk Worcestershire is a series of easy to use and well waymarked walks. Barnt Green Circular Walk The Countryside Code Fact File • Be safe – plan ahead and follow any signs Start The Victoria Public House • Leave gates and property as you find them Hewell Road, Barnt Green, B45 8NW • Protect plants and animals. Take your litter home • Keep dogs under close control & clean up after them Length 6.5 miles • Consider other people Parking Barnt Green, Lickey Hills Country Park or Withybed Green Barnt Green Barnt Green Gates/Stiles 11 gates, 9 stiles Despite the closeness of Birmingham, Barnt Green has a Terrain A substantial climb onto the Lickey Hills, rural feel being surrounded by large areas of green-belt, the canal towpaths, gently sloping countryside preserved landscape of the Lickey Hills Country Park, the Circular Walk Birmingham to Worcester canal and the Upper and Lower Bittell Reservoirs. Kidderminster Barnt Green Barnt Green is an ideal place to start and finish a walk. The village contains destination shops, a well-equipped play area Bromsgrove for young children and two tea shops. Food and drink are The Barnt Green Circular walk takes you through the available at the highly regarded Victoria public house which is beautiful countryside surrounding this rural village. Redditch centrally located in the village. The landscape varies from open countryside views, Droitwich Further information about the numbered points of interest mature woodland to larger expanses of water at the marked on the map is available from the parish council Upper and Lower Bittell Reservoirs. Worcester website at www.barntgreen.org.uk. Follow the tab marked Walks in and around Barnt Green. Find out more online at: www.worcestershire.gov.uk/countryside Walk Worcestershire Barnt Green Circular 6.5 miles Fact File c Public transport links • 145 bus service • Regular trains via Cross City line Parking P • Various in Barnt Green • Lickey Hills Country Park Warren Lane, Lickey, B45 8ER • Withybed Green, Withybed Lane, Alvechurch. B45 7PN Points of interest 1 Barnt Green village 2 Alternative Routes 3 Withybed Greenb a S 4 Lower Bittell Reservoir 5 Upper Bittell Reservoir 6 Cofton Parish Church 7 Lickey Visitors’ Centre 8 Lickey Woods 9 Barnt Green Rail Station Refreshments a Victoria Pub and tea shops b The Crown public house c Lickey Visitors’ Centre tea room Other local walks include: • The Barnt Green Waterways Walk - 5 miles • The Barnt Green Lickey Hills Walk – 4 miles Follow this waymark b Barnt Green Circular Walk Find out more online at: Travel Line information: www.worcestershire.gov.uk/countryside www.traveline.org.uk or 0871 200 2233.

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