From the car park turn left and walk along Downs Road. Where the road curves right, bear left at a public footpath sign, downhill. Where the road curves right at the riverside turn left, cross Fullbridge with care, and follow the grassy embankment keeping the river on your right. Go up steps and turn right along a lane. Maintain direction and cross a stile. Follow the often muddy path, which meanders uphill through the sloping meadow usually occupied by horses.

Go through a kissing gate and over the adjacent stile and keep ahead, looking out for a stile on the right at the top of the hill. Turn right, along the downhill path through woodland and pass under the A414 Maldon bypass. Continue along the rising concrete path, and at the end bear right.

Maintain direction along this canopied green lane bounded by ancient hedgerows, and cross a footbridge. Follow the yellow waymark along the grassy path, to join the gravel path.

On your right is Beeleigh Abbey. Continue past the abbey and at the end turn right onto a lane. Ignore the footpath on the left and pass Beeleigh Grange Farm on your left, and Beeleigh Falls House, an impressive Victorian villa, on the right. Go through the kissing gate and soon you hear the sound of rushing water of Beeleigh Falls.

Cross the timber bridge over the weir. At the end of the bridge turn right, keeping the river on your right. Stop at the second weir for good river views. Continue, keeping the river on your right, and at Beeleigh Lock turn right and walk, with the canal on your left, towards the red-brick bridge. Do not cross the bridge, instead turn right onto the concrete path next to the canal. Maintain direction with the canal on your left and the golf course on your right. Cross the next bridge and turn right, keeping the canal on your right. Continue under two sections of the Maldon bypass and keep ahead onto the grassy bridleway running parallel with the canal.

At the next bridge take the set of steps up to Heybridge Street. At the top turn right and join the B1018 towards Maldon. Maintain direction to cross the River Chelmer via Fullbridge, bear left into Market Hill, turn left into the High Street and return to the car park via Butt Lane on your left.