(S/E) From the concourse in front of the Teaching and Learning Centre (facing up South Road) follow the signs for St Mary's College round to the right, go up the steps (or ramp) until you reach the concourse in front of the main college building.
Continue along the main avenue flanked by trees to Elvet Hill Road.
Turn left and follow the footpath around Trevelyan College. The Oriental Museum will be on your right.
Continue on Elvet Hill Road to the junction with South Road. Turn right to Howlands Park and Ride.
(1) When you reach Howlands Park and Ride you will see an entrance to your left Durham Botanical Gardens (there is a charge for this). University staff and students should swipe their ID cards will need to press the intercom to gain access.
Make your way uphill through the gardens to the main entrance of the Botanical Gardens. When you exit the front entrance bear right and walk to Hollingside Lane then turn left onto this lane.
Walk a short distance down Hollingside Lane crossing the entrance to the car park on your right and then turning right onto a footpath signposted Mountjoy Centre next to Fountains Hall.
(2) Follow this path which runs between a pond on your left and the Maths and Computing Building on your right.
When you reach the road junction, this leads up to a car park on your right, bear left in front of the Mountjoy Centre, there is landscaping and benches here.
Turn left at the access road and walk along the footpath. Alternatively, keep right and walk down the footpath next to the main access road past the car parks (which is a gentler gradient) turning left at the bottom of the hill after the small building called The Lodge.
Turn left, down the very steep footpath down High Wood, until you reach the main footpath through the university buildings, the Calman Building will be on your left (this is round).
(3) Turn left here. Those of you who walked down the main road will now reach the Calman Centre too.
Continue on the path through the university buildings bearing left after the Calman Building until you reach South Road.
Use the pedestrian crossing to return to the concourse in front of the teaching and learning centre. (S/E)