Harbury and Chesterton
Walk through the car park behind the village hall and head south by football pitches to a gate in the far corner. Don’t go through it, but bear right to follow the waymarkers for the Centenary Way. Cross a field to a second gate onto Bush Heath Lane. Turn left and walk down to a junction of lanes.
Go right here, signed ‘Kingston Farm’, over a cattle grid and along the grass verge of a driveway for about 600yds (549m), still following the Centenary Way. Where the Way goes off to the left, continue ahead along a quiet country lane. Soon the buildings of Kingston Barn farm will be to your left, but fork right to follow the lane as it goes to the right of the farm complex, to reach a lane going off to the right by a footpath guide post.
Proceed right along this lane, which weaves its way through some very attractive countryside with views of Chesterton windmill. When you reach the garden walls to Kingston Manor Farm, turn right again and continue along the lane, now heading in a northwesterly direction, passing some lakes. After about 0.5 miles (800m) of walking past the picturesque lakes, the lane arcs left up towards St Giles’ Church in the hamlet of Chesterton. Through a gate or over a cattle grid, continue up the lane towards the church.
Some 120 paces before reaching the church gate, go right through a kissing gate and ascend over cultivated fields and pastureland, following the footpaths and heading generally northeast back towards Harbury. The footpath crosses a stile and passes to the right of an old windpump and Bunker’s Hill. Over the brow of the hill head towards the left-hand of a group of houses, then left along the field edge to a gate onto Plough Lane, near Harbury Heath House. Turn right, and after 100yds (91m) turn left through a metal gate on a footpath that initially is to the right of the field hedge and later to the left, until you reach Bush Heath Lane. Go through a gate and turn right onto a lane, then after about 30 paces go left through a gate to rejoin the Centenary Way once again. The path leads towards Pineham Farm. After about 200yds (183m), go left beside a gate to return to the back of Harbury village hall.
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