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More information can be be can information More week. the throughout This walk is served by a number of bus services services bus of number a by served is walk This Getting here Getting M42 M42 of over one million people. million one over of COERY Medium: 8km / 5 miles 5 / 8km Medium: SOLIHULL hidden landscape on the doorstep doorstep the on landscape hidden IRMIHAM Circular Walk Circular M6 M69 and Tamworth is an extraordinary, extraordinary, an is Tamworth and m a e M5 T r e UEATO COLESHILL v Stretching between Birmingham Birmingham between Stretching i R Countryside A452 KISURY wildlife of the Tame Valley Wetlands. Wetlands. Valley Tame the of wildlife WOLERHAMO M42 A453 A5 Coleshill Coleshill Explore the landscape, history and and history landscape, the Explore TAMWORH M6 A444 M6 TOLL M6 LICHIEL Coleshill countryside at Southfields Farm © Donna Willis Coleshill Parish Church Comma Duke Bridge, Coleshill © Donna Willis © Dafydd Jones © Brent Thomson Walk highlights Coleshill of the court for the Coleshill Parish Church Duke Bridge Coleshill was originally hundred (a county The Church of St. Peter Duke Bridge (also known an Iron Age settlement division) of Coleshill. and St. Paul, known as Duke End Bridge) is a in existence before the Coleshill became a major commonly as Coleshill Grade II listed structure Roman Conquest of AD 43. staging post on coaching Parish Church, is a Grade near Coleshill, on Archaeological excavations roads from London to I listed building. The Maxstoke Lane. at the end of the 1970s Chester, Liverpool and oldest section dates back It is unclear when the showed the presence of a Holyhead. It boasted over to the 14th Century but bridge was built, but it Romano-Celtic temple on 20 inns in its heyday! construction largely took is thought to date from place in the 15th Century. Grimstock Hill, built over Southfields Farm the late 17th or early Follow the the previous Iron Age huts. A family owned arable The Norman font inside 18th Century. Countryside Code The area was also on the farm in Coleshill, it is a the church gives a clue to It is constructed from boundary of two Celtic popular site for education a church being on the site dressed red sandstone, Sections of this circular walk travel tribes – the Coritanii to visits where students much earlier than this. with five arches and through wildlife friendly areas, the east and Cornovii learn about biodiversity V-shaped refuges please be aware of this and know to the west. and farming practices by along the parapet. your Countryside Code: In the Domesday Book, carrying out surveys in n Leave gates and property as you Coleshill is listed as wildlife friendly habitats find them and keep to paths land held by William the and along the River Blythe. n Leave no trace of your visit and Conqueror and the site take your litter home n Keep dogs under close control n Be considerate of locals and others enjoying the outdoors n Follow advice and local signs. Coleshill START/E Pish COLESHILL Chuch COURYSIE 1 CIRCULAR rkers ma for t ay he H w C n CIRCUL o i w ILL AR l g o H W e h r S s b E A h L L i S k K l O l r t C C a i d r c e u h l t a P r w a W o r l l k a l 2 o e f k i F e v River Blythe i l r T d a s m d D R e an V tl d alley We e M h a T xs Key toke Ln Walk highlight 3 Refreshments Toilets uke Parking 5 ide 2 Route points d COLESHILL 4 R Road y 11 r t Footpath n e v Track o C 6 Disused railway n L Coleshill s Circular walk d l 10 o Buildings River Blythe n Southfields r Farm A Open water 7 Woodland Cemetery P a c k i 8 n H g awkes t we o ll 0 0.25 miles n L L n n M6 9 Hwkeswell Farm 0.5 km Coleshill Directions: Follow the After 110m, walk after the gate and In 360m, turn 3waymarking posts 5through another crosses two bridges 10 right along the Countryside (Circular route and path towards the far kissing gate and over over the River Blythe. footpath and entrance through countryside) corner of the field, passing the remains of a disused to Southfields Farm. Circular Walk Look for the through a gap in the railway. On your right is Alternatively, walk to the waymarking post Distance: 8km (5 miles) The walk starts at hedge and bearing right. the River Blythe, keep this 8 end of Packington Lane, ahead near the field gate. 1 Coleshill High Street, At the next gap, turn left on your right hand side, turn right and walk along Allow: 2.5-3.5 hours Walk along the track out at the entrance to the and follow the farm track walking down the slope Coventry Road (B4117) of the field past oak trees Landscape and path type: Croft, follow the finger along the north edge of through a pedestrian gate. back to the centre of and through another The route uses unsurfaced post through the timber the field for 390m through Coleshill and the end Walk along the south field gate. Walk over the footpaths through arable arch towards the Parish another gap then down of the walk. field boundary for disused railway again fields, muddy farm tracks, Church and The Croft. the track. Look for another 6 A446 360m, passing through and up the slope. Walk along the waymarking post on the tarmacked pavements Go across the Croft three more gates, re- farm track past right hand side and follow Follow the 11 and roads. There are sets 2 to the cemetery, turn joining Maxstoke Lane Southfields Farm, turn it through a kissing gate. waymarking discs, of steps, footbridges, right and walk south for and Duke Bridge. Cross 9 left sharply after 550m, turn right around the marl 200m to cross Maxstoke Head south a the bridge and turn right continuing to follow the slopes, pedestrian and pit through three kissing Lane, then continue short distance onto Arnolds Lane. waymarking post back kissing gates during this 4 gates and skirt the edge south onto The Drive for around a group of trees towards the pool and walk. Sturdy footwear Walk south for 360m, of the farm through 250m, passing through surrounding a pool, the the ruins. Retrace your leaving the lane a fourth kissing gate, is recommended. Please a pedestrian gate onto site of some ruins, then 7 path around the group and continuing south joining Hawkswell Lane. be aware that parts of the arable farm land. Take walk south-west to of trees surrounding a following the path. Follow Turn right and walk along walk cross areas where a moment to enjoy the the field gate following pool and the kissing gate, the waymarking posts, Hawkeswell Lane for the river floods during views east towards the footpath, then left, then west (left) along the briefly turn left through approximately 1km and Maxstoke then north doubling back to follow field boundary turning adverse weather. a pedestrian gate then bear right, heading north towards Shustoke. the southern field north and northwest back immediately right to and along Packington Lane. Map: OS Map 221 boundary back to the east along the paths towards through a kissing gate. Coventry & Warwick, towards a kissing gate. Coleshill Town centre. Royal Leamington Spa The path bears left & Kenilworth..