Aymestrey to Yatton

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Walk up the access road for 750yds (686m), until just before a junction of tracks. Note a stile on the right – your route returns over this.

Turn left then, in 25yds (23m), curve right, passing a seemingly nameless house with a stone wall relic in its garden. Shortly curve left to walk through Yatton, to a T-junction. Turn left to the A4110. Cross directly to a stile, striking across this field to a gap. In the next field veer left to skirt round the right edge of (not over) an oak and ash embankment, to find a corner stile. Walk up the left edge of this field but, at the brow, where it bends for some 70yds (64m) to a corner, take a stile in the hedge to walk along its other side. Within 60yds (55m) you will be in a clear path, steeply down through woodland, a ravine on your left. Join a rough driveway to a minor road. (The glacial overflow channel is directly ahead.)

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  Terrain  - Excellent tracks, field paths, minor roads, steep woodland sections, many stiles
  Landscape  - Wooded hills and undulating pastures
  Dog friendliness  - Several opportunities for controlled, off-lead walking; lead needed on two stretches of lane
  Parking  - At old quarry entrance, on east side of A4110, 0.25 miles (400m) north of Aymestrey Bridge
  Toilets en route  - None on route
About the walk
On your way here, you may have seen signs to the village of Shobdon and the adjacent Shobdon Airfield. It was one of the many airfields built in 1940, as part of what was collectively perhaps the biggest civil engineering project undertaken in Britain. At that time a modest, privately owned quarry...
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Herefordshire is split in two by the River Wye which meanders through the county on its way to the Severn and the sea. Largely rural, with Hereford, Leominster, and Ross-on-Wye the major towns and cities, its countryside and ancient villages are the county’s major asset.
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Aymestrey to Yatton

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Additional information
  Terrain - Excellent tracks, field paths, minor roads, steep woodland sections, many stiles
  Landscape - Wooded hills and undulating pastures
  Dog friendliness - Several opportunities for controlled, off-lead walking; lead needed on two stretches of lane
  Parking - At old quarry entrance, on east side of A4110, 0.25 miles (400m) north of Aymestrey Bridge
  Toilets en route - None on route
About the walk
On your way here, you may have seen signs to the village of Shobdon and the adjacent Shobdon Airfield. It was one of the many airfields built in 1940, as part of what was collectively perhaps the biggest civil engineering project undertaken in Britain. At that time a modest, privately owned quarry...
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Herefordshire
Herefordshire is split in two by the River Wye which meanders through the county on its way to the Severn and the sea. Largely rural, with Hereford, Leominster, and Ross-on-Wye the major towns and cities, its countryside and ancient villages are the county’s major asset.