Start: Our walk starts from The Hickory Smoke House in Burton Green. CV4 8AP
(S/E) With your back to The Hickory Smoke House pub turn right and walk along the pavement of the pleasant Cromwell Road for one mile crossing over HS2 on what will be a "Green Tunnel. This road becomes Hob Lane but keep walking to pass Burton Green Primary School.
(1) 200 yards after the school, where the road bends gently right, go left by the way mark sign following the route named Birmingham Road (ignore footpath right). Stay along a private drive and just before a white house named "Stile End" take a gated gap on the left and then immediately right through a kissing gate into a field.
Stay directly forward here taking the right hand footpath and keeping close to trees on your right. Take a kissing gate in the corner of the field and stay on the same heading to reach the field corner gap. Take the gap into the next field, then go 1/2 left diagonally across a very large field, aiming in the distance for the gap between the second and third pylons from the left.
(2) Eventfully you will reach a gated footbridge 80 yards in from the left corner of the field. Take the double gated footbridge, then go left to pass double power poles through the gap into another field. Continue along the line of power lines with a hedge right to take the kissing gate to the main road.
Cross directly over the main road and continue up the driveway of Rudfyn Manor, signed Meer End 1 mile. Just a few yards after passing a large pylon on your left and under power lines you will reach a driveway on your left.
(3) Here we join The Millennium Way by turning right opposite the driveway to cross a field passing exactly 10 yards to the left of a large solitary oak tree. Stay ahead across the field aiming for a yellow-topped way post by the field corner edge, where you will notice a Millennium Way waymarker.
Follow the waymarker slightly right then after 10 paces take the gap left and immediately right to stay up the field with hedge right. Follow around field edge up the field to far mid hedge stile/gap. Take stile/gap and go over ditch bridge and second stile.
Stay ahead across the field to take the metal gate then go across the centre of the next field to the far right corner to find a waymarker and two kissing gates. Take both kissing gates and go ahead with the hedge right to find and take a metal kissing gate right. Go ahead over the centre of the field and take the gateway/gap to the main road.
(4) Cross over the main road to take the kissing gate into the tree-lined copse to the field. Go with the hedge left, then take the corner kissing gate and go right, hugging two sides of the field to the far field corner stile (or cross diagonally if mown).
Cross a stile and a ditch bridge then go diagonally left across the field to hedge gap by the large oak tree, then ahead to find the field corner metal gate. Take the gate and cross the ditch bridge to the driveway.
(5) Cross driveway and take the kissing gate to the left of the gateway. Go left with hedge left to find and take field corner stile. Bear right with hedge right to take the indistinct gap. Immediately after a gap, go left with the hedge left to the field corner.
Remain in the field (ignoring stile left) and go right keeping hedge left passing under power lines to find and take the field corner ditch bridge. Go with hedge left to take the kissing gate to the road (Hob Lane).
(6) Here we join a diversion of The Millennium Way not shown on OS Maps. Turn right on Hob Lane and after 50 paces turn left into the driveway of Beanit Farm - The Old Granary. After 60 paces take the wooden gate on the right, then cross a footbridge over a ditch to take a further wooden gate.
Stay along the narrow enclosed footpath to cross another small wooden bridge then turn right to reach wide track. Go left here and stay on track. Where the track narrows, stay forward to exit via a metal kissing gate to join a newly constructed track known as The Greenway.
(7) Turn sharp left here on the track walking away from the overhead power cables. Stay on fenced track, which weaves right & left for some while to arrive at a pedestrian crossing over the B4101 Waste Lane. Go over the pedestrian crossing and turn right to carefully walk up the grass verge (please take extra care on this busy main road).
Go past another entrance to Little Beanit Farm on your right and cross bridge over the HS2 route below). Once over the bridge, continue ahead on the grass verge/pavement passing the bus stop and red postbox.
(8) Just past Field House, by the large road sign, take the public footpath on left down narrrow passageway bordered by wooden fencing.
At the end of the passageway go over a stile and go left with the hedge left to take the corner double stile. Stay forward to take the next stile, or through the adjacent gated gap, keeping hedge & fence left to reach the corner. Take stile and go right to reach Hodgett's Lane.
(9) Here we leave The Millennium Way and turn right on road to reach a crossroads. Continue over crossroads (signed Burton Green) and after a further 120 yards find and take kissing gate left. Follow the direction of the waymark towards two large trees (one behind the other), going through a temporary kissing gate inserted in an electric fence and skirting to the right of a mound.
Just before you reach the first tree (on which you will see a waymarker), go diagonally left. You are heading for the field corner kissing gate, with an adjacent five bar gate. Take the kissing gate then stay ahead, very gently uphill to reach two large double metal gates ahead.
Take the corner stile adjacent to the large double gate on your left into field. Walk ahead more or less parallel to power lines for 200 yards to reach a waymark post by a telephone pole.
(10) Here we turn right (there is a waymarker on the wooden pen) and pass up field between the wooden pen left and a lone tree right. Keep ahead across a large field aiming towards a wooden fence to find a kissing gate to the right of the house whose garden sticks out into the field.
Take the kissing gate and stay along the driveway past several houses to reach the road. Turn right and shortly you will arrive back at The Hickory Smokehouse for refreshments. (S/E)
