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Route from Lichfield goes through the pedestrianised city centre and avoids Bishops Walk which is shut until June at the earliest. The route goes up Curborough Road rather than Dimbles Lane and goes via a residential street and an alleyway across a field to the underpass which avoids crossing the sometimes very busy Eastern Avenue. A series of well used footpaths take you across countryside to the edge of the village of Elmhurst where you loop around a field passing Apsley House and avoid the narrow lanes. The route there becomes the same as Lickin One and crosses the West Coast Mainline over a railway bridge. You then follow footpaths north through fields of sheep and sometimes cows until crossing Wood End Lane. The path is marked as closed by HS2 until June 2021 here but I was able to access it under the gaze of security. I think they allow walkers as long as work is not actually going on in the area of the path. Having gone through Black Slough Wood the path goes through a field and then turns right to join the A515 and there is a bit of verge walking required. Another footpath (fenced in for a section by HS2) takes you most of the rest of the way and a lane delivers you to the meeting point in Kings Bromley. A pleasant village
Route from Lichfield goes through the pedestrianised city centre and avoids Bishops Walk which is shut until June at the earliest. The route goes up Curborough Road rather than Dimbles Lane and goes via a residential street and an alleyway across a field to the underpass which avoids crossing the sometimes very busy Eastern Avenue. A series of well used footpaths take you across countryside to the edge of the village of Elmhurst where you loop around a field passing Apsley House and avoid the narrow lanes. The route there becomes the same as Lickin One and crosses the West Coast Mainline over a railway bridge. You then follow footpaths north through fields of sheep and sometimes cows until crossing Wood End Lane. The path is marked as closed by HS2 until June 2021 here but I was able to access it under the gaze of security. I think they allow walkers as long as work is not actually going on in the area of the path. Having gone through Black Slough Wood the path goes through a field and then turns right to join the A515 and there is a bit of verge walking required. Another footpath (fenced in for a section by HS2) takes you most of the rest of the way and a lane delivers you to the meeting point in Kings Bromley. A pleasant village
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Lichfield
Grid Ref
SK1186909179
Lat / Lon
52.68020° / -1.82587°
Easting / Northing
411,869E / 309,179N
What3Words
slug.gallons.career
King's Bromley
Grid Ref
SK1218016814
Lat / Lon
52.74883° / -1.82099°
Easting / Northing
412,180E / 316,814N
What3Words
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| Lichfield | |
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| Grid Ref | SK1186909179 |
| Lat / Lon | 52.68020° / -1.82587° |
| Easting / Northing | 411,869E / 309,179N |
| What3Words | slug.gallons.career |
| King's Bromley | |
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| Grid Ref | SK1218016814 |
| Lat / Lon | 52.74883° / -1.82099° |
| Easting / Northing | 412,180E / 316,814N |
| What3Words | snoring.exits.scariest |
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Ken
24 Mar 2023Some road walking but also nice bits of countryside, woodland and pasture no services in the centre.
I walked from Kings Bromley leaving along a quiet lane leading to a narrow path along a pleasant green lane. The path later follows a field edge before crossing to a stile along an invisible path.
Here our route meets the road which has a decent verge but the tarmac offers easier walking. We pass what was once a garden centre, if it reopens as such it could offer refreshments. The marina does not appear to offer services to the public.
Leaving the road the path follows the field edge then enters the edge of a wood, not well used but clear and pleasant. The path is not obstructed through the HS2 route and approaches the road alongside an Ecological Mitigation Area, new trees to replace old.
Crossing a stream and a parish boundary it's pasture so there could be cattle but I'm guessing, more likely to be horses. The bridge over the railway can be seen in the distance but don't make a direct approach there is a fence on the way.
Approaching Lichfield the paths start to show more use. I spotted a single sign for the Erasmus Walk, a search only reveals Basel and Cambridge as locations. The main road is crossed by an unrecorded path through a subway then across open land before jitties lead to a road approach to the delightful Stow Pool and the old quarter of Lichfield between the cathedral and town centre.
Hugh Hudson
25 Feb 2023 (edited 26 Feb 2023)Walked from Lichfield to Kings Bromley. Quite a good direct route - my only reservation being the road section on the A515 as the verge gets a bit narrow and uneven in places and the road is busy.
The route out of Lichfield is easy to follow if you trust the GPX - Curborough Road has a good pavement, and the path from St Catherines Road to the underpass under Western Road is clear and well used, though not shown on the OS map. Beyond the underpass we go right on a good path through the trees then left over a little bridge onto another well used field path. Our right takes us right past Apsley House then left along the field edge.
The path over the West Coast main line involves the first stiles of the walk and flights of steps on both sides of the bridge. Beyond the field path is not clearly marked but is fairly easy to follow out to Wood End Lane. Beyond, the footpath closure notice for the HS2 works David mentioned is still there, but there was nobody working on the site and no obstruction to the path, so I ignored it and carried on. In the wood the track leaves us and we continue on a little path that takes us to the A515. We follow the verge over the Trent and Mersey canal and around the bend to reach a field path (the path line was not visible, but there was no problem walking straight across what was mostly grass). After a while a path materialises between hedges and leads to the quiet Crawley Lane, which leads us into King's Bromley where the meeting point is a short distance up the main road.
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David Sanderson
03 May 2021I think this route has the edge over Lickin One, especially as part of Lickin One is shut until June 2021. A safer flatter more open route between Lichfield and Elmhurst and then the same route to Kings Bromley.
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