Robust Rambles

Section 15 (Return)

Frinsted to Doddington

Walk Details

Walk Instructions

With the church behind, go back to the road junction and turn left, downhill, on the outward route.

At the junction at the bottom, bear left to a metal kissing gate on the right into the corner of a field.

Two paths go off here. Take the righthand one up the field edge. At the top end go through a metal kissing gate and continue along with a hedge on your left.

Continue straight on into the next field and keep along the edge.

At the far end approach a bulge of trees. There are two options. Just before the trees push into the field notice a footpath off left into the trees. Take this and walk straight down through the wood. Otherwise stay on the PROW and continue to follow the field edge around the trees to the end corner of the field at the far side.

Here go left into the wood (possibly boggy) and soon meet a path. Turn right on this path which soon reaches a road. Turn left for ½ mile.

At a junction, turn left for 150 metres (ignore gate in fence on right). Just before woods, turn right through a wicket gate, then diagonally right down a large pasture (keep well left of a cottage over the far side).

Eventually reach the far side of the field. Look for an ancient wooden swing gate and go through bushes to a wooden kissing gate onto a road. Turn left.

At a junction turn right on a footpath into trees. Soon emerge into a field. Take the path going diagonally right towards a mass of trees over on the far side.

On reaching the trees, turn left along the field edge for some way. Reach Little Higham Farm on your right.

Here turn right, off the field, and pass between buildings. Then swing round left across the farmyard, to a gap into the corner of a field.

Bear slightly left across the open field (currently no reinstatement). Reach a waymark post at the far side.

Turn left along the field edge a short distance to a lone tree on the right. At this point the path goes on straight across the open field ahead to a wooden pole in the far hedge.

Find a sturdy but overgrown stile and go over to a metal kissing gate into the top of a pasture. Cross diagonally left to a further metal kissing gate.

Go through a wood following the path that drops downhill. Go through a metal kissing gate into a large pasture and bear diagonally left down to the far opposite corner (a huge metal double fieldgate is currently in the way. It is not locked but very difficult to open and may need to be climbed).

In the corner go through a metal kissing gate out to a road junction. Turn left on the main road back into Doddington passing a playing field, garage and butcher’s shop to return to the Chequers Inn and start of the section.