Start from the end of the car park and walk upriver. Cross a small brook as you approach a waterworks, then bear right, under a larger bridge, heading away from the river to gates where you enter woodland. The path climbs to a fork, where you go left to walk the length of Long Covert. Ignore a path descending back left. After about 0.75 miles (1.2km) the path arrives at a triangular clearing with a signboard. Turn right on another path which follows the rim of a dingle. Swing by a bench, descending towards a brook.

Ignore a wooden footbridge and continue on the same side a little further until you can cross the brook at stepping stones. Climb out of the dingle to a gate into the pasture/parkland surrounding Dudmaston Hall. Follow a track to the right, which gives brief glimpses of the Hall. Go through a small gate then immediately right through another gate, joining Dudmaston’s access road. If you intend to visit Dudmaston Hall, this is as good a time as any; to continue with the walk, follow the access road past the car parks to the A442.

On arriving at the A442, cross over to a lane opposite, then join a clearly marked footpath just to its left, along a field-edge. Ignore a stile on the right, loop round trees surrounding a barn, and continue until you rejoin the road at a hedge-gap opposite a small National Trust car park. Go through the car park to a gateway in the bottom left corner.

Turn right on a field-edge bridleway. Descend into a valley, then climb out of it again and continue to a footpath junction in a field corner. Turn left, still on the bridleway, and follow the field-edge to a lane. The bridleway continues opposite, by a field-edge. In the corner turn left for a few paces, then go through a gap and along the edge of the next field, with woodland (Witheridge’s Rough) on your right. At the end of the wood, close to the corner, join a track and turn right. Soon there are excellent views of Wenlock Edge, The Wrekin and the Clee Hills.

Leave the track when it turns right to Quatt Farm and go straight on through a field gate. At the far end of the field, go through another gate and turn left on a stony track, with woodland on your left and a hedge on your right. As the hedge comes to an end, a sudden view is revealed of the Clee Hills. Turn right down a field-edge to the A442. Cross to the lane opposite, next to a wooden bus shelter, and go down to Hampton Loade.