From the far end of the car park, walk the few paces on to the disused South Staffordshire Railway line, beyond the former station and platform. Head right and continue along the gravel track for 1.5 miles (2.4km), passing over Flash Lane, Blackpit Lane and Penstone Lane (there are picnic benches near both Flash Lane and Blackpit Lane if you’re in need of rest and refreshment).

Immediately after the first bridge you go under, turn left up a short track to the road, and then head left over that same bridge and along the road for 0.5 miles (800m). It’s usually quiet but there are one or two blind corners, so care needs to be taken. Pass The Greyhound pub in Lower Penn on your left, and continue over the crossroads towards Upper Penn.

Pass St Anne’s Church and black-and-white timbered Rose Cottage, both on your right. Opposite a barn, take a gate on your right. A footpath sign indicates the path across the field to another kissing gate. Follow a grass path ahead across the next field to yet another kissing gate.

Through this gate go down some steep wooden steps and through a kissing gate. Continue down the steep, well-worn trail (this gets very slippery when wet) to reach the bottom of the field before crossing a stile. Stay on the narrow dirt track ahead; it might be thick with greenery in the summer, but there should be an obvious passage through.

At Orton House, turn left along the narrow, single-track road for 0.5 miles (800m); again, it’s very quiet, but take care on blind bends. The road steepens up to the top. Just after the brow of the hill, turn right along a wide track (a public bridleway) past a wide house. This hedge-lined route offers great views of the rolling green hills of the Black Country to the east, the Shropshire Hills to the west and the Malvern Hills to the south.

Follow the track as it passes to the right of the communications mast and a large concrete and steel barn. When the track goes hard left, cross a stile ahead and continue in the same direction across the middle of the field to the near end of Bullmeadow Coppice.

Turn down left for a few steps, then right on a path through a corner of the coppice to an open meadow. Ignore a path to the left; keep straight on along the wood edge to the field’s corner. Here go right for a narrow path down the steep and sometimes slippery hillside. At the edge of Wombourne turn right along Bratch Lane and go straight over a crossroads to return to the car park at the start.