Alwinton and the River Alwin

(S/E) From the car park turn left along the road heading into Alwinton. At the T-junction cross the village green, and cross over the footbridge. Turn left onto a narrow tarmac road signed ‘Clennell Street/Border Ridge’.

(1) Follow the road until the tarmac ends, then keep on the track as it heads uphill. Ignore the gate and stile to the right, keep on up the farm track.

(2) Cross over the ladder stile and follow the track, skirting around the right of Castle Hills, an ancient Iron Age settlement.

(3) As the main track (Clennell Street) winds round to the left near the top of the hill, take right at the junction to a wicket gate, approx 50 metres away. Go through the gate and bear left across the field to the next gate. Go through this gate and follow the well worn path to the right along the hillside.

(4) Continue on this path passing a stone sheepfold down to your right. At a junction of many tracks, head downhill towards the forest corner.

(5) On reaching the bottom of the hill, go through the field gate onto the pink gravel forest road and turn right. Keep following the road, crossing the River Alwin three times, until you reach a crossroads.

(6) At the crossroads, follow the track round to the right passing through the field gate, keeping the dry stone wall to your left. Cross over the cattle grid and turn right over the footbridge.

(7) Once over the footbridge, turn left up the path. Go over a step stile then continue straight ahead walking along the headland to the stile at the opposite side of the field. Cross the stile and carry on along the edge of the field keeping the fence to your left.

(8) Go over a ladder stile and turn left onto the farm track that you came up. Head back downhill to Alwinton and along the road back to the car park. (S/E)