Head along the A53 in the direction of Market Drayton and take the first left along Kestrel Drive. Just after The Robins head left along a woodland track down the back of some houses keeping the high panel fence to your right. When you reach the end of a cul-de-sac, go left on a woodland track with roofs of bungalows visible to your left turn onto the track to the right. After 219 yards (200m) with the Loggerheads Football Club buildings on your left bear left across the clearing and past an iron bar across a wide track and, at the fork, go right, past the football pitch, then turn left uphill take the track uphill. Where this forks go right along the edge of the football pitch and at the end of the pitch turn left uphill to reach a major path junction.

Take the fourth path on your left and where this bends left at the far end, follow a narrow path through the undergrowth ahead right to reach a wide gravel track. Turn right through the gate and continue for 0.5 miles (800m), until the main track goes right.

Head over a stile and along the footpath with a hedge to your right-hand side. At the bottom of the field bear right towards the right-hand corner of the bank of trees. Go through the gate and head left up track to Knowleswood farm (derelict) and another gate.

Continue straight ahead and, at the bottom of the field, go right over a stile and drop down through a small dip. At the bottom of the dip go through a gate and head right along a concrete track. At a fork go left to The Nook Farm and, after a mile (1.6km) reach Home Farm. Turn right along the semi-surfaced Flash Lane and up the gentle hill to Blore Farm. When you get to a junction follow the road to the right-hand side of the farmhouse, after 200yds (183m), head left through a hedge over a stile. Follow this hedge right to a stile in the bottom of the field. This stile probably provides the best vantage point from which to view the main battlefield, now private farm land, which was centred on the shallow valley to your left.

Continue to the bottom right-hand corner of the next field before bearing diagonally right across another field to the right-hand end of a bank of trees. Cross the small stile and follow the faint track straight across the middle of the next field to another stile.

Follow the path through a young plantation, keeping left at the fork, to a fence ahead and cross a stile. Keep following the faint track alongside a wood to your right and, when you come to a clearing, continue around the edge of the field to a series of small footbridges. At the corner of this field, cross a stile and footbridge to a wide grassy track, which you follow right and up the hill to a large, lone oak at the top. Turn left here to cross a stile back onto the A53 to return to the start. Follow the path around the edge of the new housing estate to emerge on to the A53 and go left along the main road to the turn of Kestrel Drive. As we went to press there was a temporary fencing here to divert walkers around a construction site.