From The Vine pub beside Kinver Lock, go up Dunsley Road for 100yds (91m) and turn right along a gravel track (‘Gibraltar’) between houses. In 200yds (183m) bear left up a fairly steep path through woods to the corner of a driveway. Turn up left, and then right just after Dunsley House, along a short dirt and grass track.

At the track’s end keep ahead over a stile, with a tall hedge on your right. Continue straight ahead from stile to stile across one small field, then down over another small one and two very large ones to a final stile on to the A449.

Take care crossing this fast, busy road, then head left for 110yds (100m), to a stile. Follow the fenced path next to young trees up to the corner of Gibbet Wood. Turn right, following the edge of the wood around to a stile on the left, and then up the wood edge to a rough track, Gibbet Lane. Turn right here for 350yds (320m) and right again over a stile in a high metal fence. Once across the private access road, head down the left edge of the next field. At its foot turn right along a tree-lined track.

At the track end, continue along a fence to your right for 100yds (91m). As the fence bears round to the right, keep going straight on, past a brick pedestal and a lonely stile mid-field, then slightly up over a brow to find a stile beyond. Bear slightly left down the next field to a stile (a gate is on its left), and then cut off the corner of the next field to cross a stile, one more small field, and a stile with a gate alongside. Follow the top, left-hand edge of this final large field all the way to a stile onto the A449 opposite the Manor House of Whittington.

Cross the busy road here (taking great care) and pass to the right of the pub (footpath sign to Lower Whittington). A small path along an ivy-covered wall leads to a hedged way down between houses to a road corner. Turn right, following a footpath sign, to a field beside the canal. Follow its bank along the field, through some woods and below some canal front houses. Just after them, fork right, uphill, to the driveway corner passed before Point 2 on the outward walk. Bear down left back to Kinver Lock.