Walk 30yds (27m) towards the chimney. From the car park walk upstream, beside the River Teme. After just 200yds (183m), leave the river to go under the bypass. Aim towards a large white house (Ham Hill) but in the far corner of this meadow move right, beside huge trees perhaps standing in water. Roughly follow the river, keeping to the left of it, for over 0.5 miles (800m) passing over a steep wooden footbridge. Pass a solitary oak, mid-field, to locate a stile (with dog hatch) and hand-painted marker beyond.

Follow the right-hand field-edge, then turn left along the same field, in front of a large metal gate with waymarkers. At the top corner, a stile gives into Lord’s Wood, to follow a discernible woodlander’s lane. After 300yds (274m), stiles zigzag out of Lord’s Wood. Pass a solitary house, then turn left onto the public road. Fork right 30yds (27m) beyond the signs ‘Powick’ and ‘30’. A few paces past The Three Nuns pub take the track on the right.

At the first bend take a stile, half right. Walk along two left-hand field-edges to a partially hidden stile in the top left, into a paddock. Follow the complicated but clear way-markers around a house and its grounds, before crossing stiles to emerge in a field. At the clear field opening on the left, turn left, to effectively double back along an obvious wooded track. Leaving the trees, aim for the far right field corner. Along this right-hand field-edge, walk 400yds (366m) to a broad entrance on the right, but cross left instead, aiming for a footbridge halfway down the block of woodland. Out of the trees, go forward 60yds (55m), striking half-right to a solitary oak smothering a telegraph pole. Carry on 40yds (37m) to find (perhaps with difficulty) a footbridge.

Skirt right of Elms (farm), picking up its driveway to the A449. At the main road, turn right briefly before crossing very carefully, to go 350yds (320m) along Ridgeway Farm’s driveway to a fingerpost (walk around the hedge end). Walk 220yds (201m) up the left-hand field-edge, then pass into meadow. Edge along this narrow pasture, briefly going close to Carey’s Brook, later moving to the right-hand field-edge. Go through a kissing gate beside a large oak, skirting the left-hand field-edge. In a corner take another kissing gate.

Just beyond a junction of tracks, a stile beside a rusted gate gives on to a wide, green lane. Through another gate in 100yds (91m) – not the pylon field – walk along the right-hand field-edge. At a pond turn left.

After Broadfield’s Farm, follow its driveway for 400yds (366m) to a cattle grid. Over this, move immediately down to the right. Walk through, then beside young deciduous plantations, then one field to the B4424. Turn right on the pavement for 60yds (55m). Cross to a gate and gap where the remains of a stile can be seen. Cross a stile and go three-quarters left across former strawberry fields, for about 0.25 miles (400m), aiming to enter St Peter’s churchyard by a metal kissing gate. From the outside, the stonework of different building phases is very noticeable, a mixture of 12th-, 15th- and 18th-century building.

Pass the church door to another kissing gate. Go ahead on a level path (not down to the right), which soon becomes a road to the A449. Cross at the pedestrian crossing to the right, before turning left, to take the route signposted ‘Public Footpath, Bransford’ on the left. Pass Severn Trent Water’s Powick Hams installation, then take a waymarked path through young woodland for about 0.25 miles (400m). Steep wooden steps lead sharply down to the flood plain. Strike diagonally right, back to the underpass and car park, but you’re not quite finished yet!

Make the short walk from the car park to Powick Bridge to see the plaques commemorating the important battles fought here during the Civil War. A little further on is the former hydroelectric power station, now desirable private homes. Return to the car park.