Go to the Tenbury Wells end of the lay-by. Take the gate nearest the road to walk down the left-hand field-edge. At the woodland turn right, shortly entering it by a stile. Go forward at a two-plank bridge. In 200yds (183m) cross pastures to join a cinder track by a white house.

Turn left for 75yds (69m). At a gate move right on a rising woodland track. At a corner stay in woodland, along a broad green path heading right, ignoring paths to the left. Fork right shortly before a gate. At this, ascend gently by taking the right fork (waymarker), aiming 50yds (46m) left of a skyline oak in a field. At the top turn right, staying within the field and following the hedge to a gateway beside a small, tree-screened dry pond.

Keep this line for 250yds (229m) to a stile on the left shortly before a corner; look for a bowl-shaped field and copse to your left. Climb this but don’t follow the waymarker forward and down; instead go through a gate to your right, and continue with this field-edge on your right. In the next field go directly under a large pylon to another stile. Walk initially with the wire fence and an apple orchard on your left, but, within 30yds (27m) of the hedgerow beginning, go through a stile, putting this hedgerow on your right. Reach a seven-bar metal gate, one short field before a cherry orchard.

Do not go through; instead turn three-quarters around, to go diagonally down this field, in search of a stile (concealed by a bracken edge) nearly 100yds (91m) left of an old metal gate. Enter an apple orchard, skirting its right-hand perimeter on asphalt and grass for approximately 500yds (457m) and with woodland to your right. Just a few paces around the orchard’s bottom corner leave by a stile. Move right a few paces to a wooden post; here fork left (not uphill). In 50yds (46m) go over a stile and see a footbridge down to your left. Across this turn left (waymarker), along a little-used path, to a minor road.

Turn left. Keep ahead at a junction, then ascend quite sharply, and drop down past the ‘Frith Common’ sign. Keep ahead at the next crossroads too. Now ascend again and beside the entrance to Rose Cottage and The Observatory, take a narrow path on the left. Soon in a field, follow the left-hand edge to a stile. Strike half right (waymarked), descending two pastures easily to walk beside woodland on your left. A gate leads you down to the Stocking Pool.

Cross the dam to a gate. Turn left and climb for 350yds (320m), skirting woodland on your left. Move right 40yds (37m) to a gate (not another further right). Through this turn immediately left. In 70yds (64m), cross an avenue diagonally. Cross a field, bypassing woods on the left, to a gate. Through this turn right to return to the car park.