(S/E) From The Hardwick Inn turn left out of the car park and left again through the overflow car park to the road.
(1) Take a few steps to the left, then turn right onto a path before a belt of trees. Follow the woodland edge for two fields, then turn left into the trees. Walk through the wood, with the M1 on your right. On exiting the woodland, keep along the fence on your right.
(2) At another path turn left (South-West), away from the motorway. Bear right across the field, aiming for a yellow-topped post at the far end. Cross the next field, bearing slightly left to another yellow-topped post. Follow the contour to a stile into a garden. Walk past the buildings and along the drive to the road (Shepherd's Lane).
(3) Turn right (downhill) and then take a narrow path on the left alongside a house. Beyond the property, cross two stiles in quick succession then aim for the far left-hand (South-East) corner of the next field.
Cross a double stile and follow the hedge beyond; when the hedge turns left, keep straight on across the field to Silverhill Lane. Turn right along the lane for 300 yards, then turn left into the car park. Join the surfaced path beyond, as far as a T-junction with another path. Follow a rather indistinct path uphill opposite, crossing another path partway up (if in doubt, head uphill).
(4) When you emerge above a major track, turn left (North - North - West) and walk along the bank to reach the sculpture. Leave the mound down steps to the right, and cross the track onto another narrow and indistinct path. Follow the path through pine trees and down a ride, then bear left, entering more open country.
(5) On reaching a surfaced track, turn right and pass between two ponds. Turn left by the information boards then bear left again at a three-way junction.
(6) When you reach the Teversal Track, turn sharp left and follow it for 1⁄2 mile, passing under a bridge after 300 yards.
(7) At the second overbridge, turn left up some steps and turn right (North - West) along a green lane. When the hedged track bends left, walk along the left-hand edge of a field ahead, then turn right across the field to the first house on Newbound Lane.
(8) Turn left along the lane, passing a series of houses. When the lane turns left at a farm gate, take a path on the right (Lady Spencer’s Walk). Bear left down some steps and walk through the woodland; at the foot of the third set of steps (with wooden rails), turn right.
(9) Follow this woodland path to a kissing gate, then cross the field to a double avenue of trees. Follow the farther avenue left until you reach a curving driveway, where you turn left, with Hardwick Hall on your right.
(10) Bear right through the car park and go through an archway into the stableyard. Pass under a second arch in the far corner and turn right to pass the ruined Old Hall on your left.
(11) Opposite the Hardwick Hall gatehouse, cross the grass and take a descending path (South-West) below the Old Hall wall to your left. From the gate at the end of the buttressed wall, head straight on through the trees and then downhill. Beyond a flight of stone steps at the steepest part, head directly to The Hardwick Inn. (S/E)
