Ebrington and Foxcote - Miles without Stiles

With your back to the Ebrington Arms turn right and walk downhill on the pavement. Pass a cottage with an owl on the roof, then a spring flowing into a trough. Carry on uphill to a junction, 1 and take the middle lane of three out of the village, passing modern houses on the right. Where the tarmac ends bear right onto a wide track with a hedge on your left, then right again through a gate.

Follow the track ahead and left 2. You climb gently to a group of trees, and turn right on a path between crops down to a line of trees hiding a stream. Turn left alongside the trees and where the
track turns right over the stream go straight on for a few metres to a footpath sign and turn right onto a wooden footbridge over the stream 3.

After the bridge pass a deep pond on your left and strike diagonally uphill across the grass to the right of the prominent Hoarston stone barn. Here turn left onto a wide track, with a ruined farmhouse above right.

Follow the track up the valley, parallel to the stream but well above it. With the wood always on your left go straight on through a wooden gate, ignoring the track uphill
right. Carry on over the grass and you’ll soon see Foxcote House above a lake on your left 4.

Go through the gate ahead into the woods (pheasant pens) and follow the path winding under the trees to a T junction. Here turn left down a track over a cattle grid/gate. Go uphill and by a
small tree bear left onto the tarmac drive, passing the Foxcote House gate 5.

Continue on tarmac with the high hedge on your left, then downhill (cattle grid/ gate) and up again passing a farmhouse on the right, then modern barns and a helipad on the left 6.

Follow this wide track, dipping left and right into a small valley and uphill to pass some old barns, then keep straight on to Ebrington.

After a large house on the right you reach junction 1 and turn right back to the start point.

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