(S/E) From The Hardwick Inn car park entrance, turn right towards the entrance to Hardwick Park. Go through the gate to the left of the cattle grid and turn left along the woodland edge.
(1) After about 300 yards, turn left through a kissing gate into the wood (signposted “The sculpture walk”). Skirt to the right of the duck decoy and cross the stream. On exiting the woodland, bear right and follow the path alongside the Great Pond.
(2) At the end, bear left onto the car park entrance road and turn right to pass the Visitor Centre. Continue through the car park, following the signposted “Miller’s Walk”.
(3) Cross the footbridge over the outflow of the Miller’s Pond, then bear right around the bottom end. At the far side, go through a gate and turn right, still with the pond on your right.
(4) Go straight ahead to a gate, and follow the path beyond, with the Great Pool on your right. Leave the lakeside to pass below a smaller pond, the lowest of the Row Ponds. Beyond the next gate, head across the field to meet the wood on your right, and follow the woodland edge back to The Hardwick Inn. (S/E)
