Robust Rambles

Section 14 (Out)

Stalisfield Green to Doddington

Walk Details

Walk Instructions

From the car park of the Plough Inn turn right and walk across the grass at the front of the pub. Immediately past, turn right again down an enclosed footpath along the side of the pub.

The path soon emerges into a field. Keep forward up the side. The path then drops down and up again to enter the field ahead. Keep on up with the hedge on your left.

The track bears left through the hedge and continue in the same direction with the hedge now on your right. At the top corner go by a rusty fieldgate onto a road.

Turn right for 10 metres then bear right onto a gravel bridleway to Hall’s Place. Follow all the way round to meet a road at the end.

Turn right on the road, downhill for ¼ mile.

Arrive at a road junction. Ignore the road going sharply left. Instead, cross to a crumbling concrete drive going directly uphill towards white gates.

This meets a road at the top. Cross with care and go forward up the drive to Otterden Place. Go through the white gates and continue up past the house and outbuildings on your right.

Just past the last building, turn right to a metal kissing gate by a metal fieldgate under power lines.

Enter a long pasture and go forward with a fence on your right. Where the fence ends, bear left across the grass to another fence now on your left and continue up the pasture.

Where this fence turns sharp left follow it towards woods. At the bottom, by a metal fieldgate, find a wooden swing gate into the woods.

Go through and drop down a few paces to a holly bush on your right. Swing right here on a very feint woodland path. You are walking along a slope with high ground to the right and a narrow grassy pasture in the valley below. Stay on this contour for 200 metres.

At the end, where the grassy pasture below reaches its end, drop down to a more open are and go forward on a clearer path. Emerge onto a road. Turn left on it for ¼ mile uphill.

Pass a side road on the left and continue, to pass a flint cottage on your left (ignore the footpath opposite). Keep on uphill. Just before another cottage on the left, turn right, off the road into the corner of an orchard.

Go forward a few paces to metal arches marking a footpath across the orchard. At the far side emerge onto a road.

Cross to a gap in the hedge just right of a house entrance. Go through to a field corner and two paths. Take the lefthand path up the field edge with a hedge on your left (make a note of the corner just left).

Where the hedge ends go straight on down then up the open field to a corner at the top. Continue through a gap into the field ahead and go on with a hedge on the left.

Where this hedge ends go on up the open field to exit onto a road at the top.

Turn right a few paces to another footpath going back into the field on your right. Head across the open field towards a wedge of trees down in the distance at the far side.

On reaching the far side go through a gap in a short length of hedge onto a road.

Turn right along he road. In a short way, at the next bend, bear left, up the bank, into a field and turn right to follow the field edge and hedge on your right.

Keep up the field edge for some way. Follow the path as it bears right into a wood.

Leave the wood to go diagonally right across an open field to a gap in the hedge at the far side. Continue diagonally left across the next field then through the hedge and on down an open field towards the houses of Doddington below.

Exit down an enclosed path at the bottom onto a road. Turn right along to a T-junction then right again.

Keep along this main road passing a butcher’s shop. Reach a road junction with The Chequers Inn on the corner and the end of the section.