Walk more … feel the difference Explore Whatever your age or fitness, you can benefit from doing a bit more physical activity. Try to get out and walk as much as possible within your own limitations. Country Walks Build walking into your daily routine Any activity is better than none, but to get the most benefit you need to do at least 150 Castle Square by minutes of moderate activity ( such as brisk walking ) in bouts of 10 minutes or more – one way to achieve this is to do 30 minute on at least 5 days of the week. Camp circular Length: 8 - 8½ miles from Castle Square or Walk 8 Moderate activity is anything which involves: 5-5½ miles from Eco Business Park Breathing a little faster Time: Allow 3-4 hours Feeling a little warmer Start: Castle Square or the Eco Business Park, Sheet Road, Ludlow. Having a slightly faster heart beat Parking: Pay and Display car parks in town centre. Also free Park & Ride car park at the Eco Business Park You should still be able to Bus service: From Castle Square to Eco Park - Park and Ride:- every 30 mins. talk – but not sing! If you Monday to Saturday - Route 722 can’t carry on a conversation Walk Grade: Through town from Castle Square, (see town map) or from the Eco then you are going too fast. Business Park, medium, with stiles and undulating tracks by fields. Why not join a Walking for Health Group? Walking in a group is a great way to start walking and stay motivated, make new friends and find out more about your local area. For details about the local Walking for Health groups go to www.walkingforhealth.org.uk and use the ‘walk finder’ to search for the walks in your area.

Ludlow Parish Path Partnership (P3) is a group of volunteers who, in conjunction with the Outdoor Partnerships Team of , help maintain public rights of way in and around Ludlow. They meet monthly to clear vegetation, to keep footpaths open by waymarking routes and assisting landowners by repairing stiles and installing gates. They have produced this series of leaflets to encourage people to utilise Ludlow Parish Paths Partnership the valuable heritage of paths. Follow the Country Code and ensure you are properly equipped with suitable footwear and clothing. Check the weather forecast and let friends know of your intentions and whereabouts before you set out. Information on walking in Shropshire: www.shropshiresgreatoutdoors.co.uk Information about cultural, sporting & countryside activities: www.discovershropshire.org.uk Ludlow Visitor Information Centre: Assembly Rooms, Mill Street, Ludlow 01584 875053 www.visitsouthshropshire.co.uk / www.ludlow.org.uk / www.shropshiretourism.co.uk How to get to & around Ludlow: www.shropshire.gov.uk View towards Titterstone Clee Hill by Michael Holland Contact Shropshire Council to report a problem with a path:Tel: 0345 678 9000 / Web: www.shropshire.gov.uk Every e ort has been made to ensure the information in this publication was correct at the time of printing. Part funded by the Department for Transport. November 2012 Revised December 2015 Out with the old and back by the new sections of the Shropshire Way over Caynham Camp makes for a good ramble. This route is colour coded with purple centre discs

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Walk Directions Town Centre stile part way along the hedge. The route The walk proper begins by the Eco A49 is likely to be a reinstated path across a Eco Approx Scale Business Park, roughly 1.5 miles to the Business large arable field, (”Ferny Banks,” over 7 0 1/2 km 1 km east of Ludlow and reached by Sheet Park acres). About 100 yards from the end, turn NORTH Road. right on a crossing, reinstated path 1 0 1/4 m 1/2 m 1 Walk out of the Eco Business Park 11 The 2 Electricity to a waymark post on the edge of the field Sub-Station Ledwyche is taken from car park and turn left. Sheet (part of the new Shropshire Way.) Go Little Ledwyche the Saxon personal down steps, crossing a stream by a Farm name “Leoda’s” place, 2 Take the first lane on the left, signed also linked with a dairy Henley – (with care, due to narrow lane 12 Ledwyche bridge and stiles and up the other side by Bridge farm. Caynham, similar- and sharp blind bend). Follow it for over Weir ly, takes its name from ½ mile, crossing a bridge over 13 a reinstated way to a stile in the hedge. the Saxon for “Taega’s” . Take the first track Turn right by the hedge and continue homestead ahead across 3 more fields fairly straight Lower Ledwyche (Prof. Stanford). The 3 on the right with finger post, metal gate towards Ledwyche soils near the streams and a gap for pedestrians. This route is Brook Crossing 3 lower down are heavy colour waymarked with purple centre 14 Caynham Camp. Climb the stiles to cross clays based on the discs. Take the track straight on at the into the enclosure. Veer to the right to Devonian silted waymark post and follow it for a mile. 15 Squirrel Lane sediments, while higher This is the old route of the Shropshire a stile on the far side by an interpretation up on the outlying ridge Way. At the junction by a board. Descend by a short, steep section 17 21 of Silurian Series Ludlow limestones, through recently felled woodland bearing 18 Ledwyche Cay Brook Old Shropshire Way 4 waymark post; turn right, follow a track Covert left at a waymark post part way down. about Caynham Camp, up a slight rise, then veer left by a 16 Continue they are lighter. waymark post to a stile beside an old Fort Caynham Camp is of oak tree. The route bears left over 16 down to a stile. The track ahead on a 15 late Bronze-Iron Age, pasture to a grassy bank bears left to a tractor track 20 c.900 BC. near a Caynham 5 stone bridge by a waymark post then to Camp 14 4 173m a fence and steel pedestrian gate. 17 19 waymark post. Turn right and before the Follow the sides of the arable field to a metal gate turn right and follow above the second metal gate. Aim in this field for line of fence, towards low woodland and Caynham 5 18 6 a stile in the far right corner. The track Shropshire Way a stile. At the end of the woodland path leads to a junction of paths and a 19 climb the stile and go left joining a path 7 fingerpost. Take the track straight on to from the right. Go through the field gate climb a short bank up to a 3 way and aim down and slightly left, towards a junction and line of trees,

8 fingerpost. Go straight on, leaving the 20 13 6 a stile and a field gate. Cross the stream old Shropshire Way. Continue down to a 7 by a bridge and follow the track up a slight field gate, stream and small meadow. bank.Then follow the side of the wood, 12 Cross it to a low 11 South bear left and follow Farm Snitton 21 10 8 9 bridge over a stream, a steel pedestrian 9 waymarking posts, back to Lower

gate and a waymark post. Cross the Snitton Lane Ledwyche. Retrace your steps to the Eco large meadow keeping slightly to the Park. right. Take the