Bredon Hill
Begin beside the telephone box, now a community book exchange in Great Comberton. Follow Church Street. Go through the churchyard; leave by an old iron kissing gate. At the road, go down the ‘11%’ gradient. In the dip find a metal gate. Ascend two fields (this bit is quite strenuous), with a stream on your left-hand side. In the third field, there is a (wobbly) signpost after 90yds (82m).
Turn right, initially beside trees. Soon a good farm track strikes across meadow. Ahead is a perfect Malvern Hills view. Follow waymarkers for the next 1.5 miles (2.4km), taking the gravel driveway beside Woollas Hall and skirting St Catherine’s Farm. Take a hard track, later tarmac, down into Bredon’s Norton. After the first few houses, you reach a junction.
Keep ahead for 100yds (91m) to another junction. Turn right if visiting St Giles’ Church; otherwise go ahead again, then round a left bend. Go into a field, to the right of two buildings – there’s a waymarker on a telegraph pole. Now follow an excellent track steadily upwards, through several gates, eventually swinging southeast, for at least 0.75 mile (1.2km). Less than 100yds (91m) beyond a single marker post reach a T-junction with ‘no right of way’ ahead.
Turn left, shortly veering right along a field-edge. Ascend for 600yds (549m), then turn right to walk all the way along the wooded escarpment ridge, before an open field leads to Parson’s Folly on the edge of Kemerton Camp. Follow the escarpment eastwards, keeping the wall on your left until you reach a small conifer plantation. Just past this, ignore a downward fork, instead following a wire fence for over 0.25 mile (400m), to a wood.
Don’t enter the wood; turn left, beside it. Within 150yds (137m), bend right to a junction. Turn left, facing away from the gate into wood, down a green hollow. At Doctor’s Wood veer left to cross an oddly level field, Even Hill (no contours on the map). Find a gate hidden in a dip at the edge of woodland to the right. Descend steeply through Cames Coomb, along a wide, well-trodden path. Briefly follow a level forestry road, then leave the trees, descending on a track for 400yds (366m) to a metal kissing gate on the right.
Walk a further 275yds (251m) on the good track to find a path on the left (ignoring the first signposted path to the left), initially between two hedges. When it ends, go straight ahead. Keep this general line – later a hard track – back into Great Comberton. Turn right to the telephone box.
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