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This route was first trialled by Nic Howes on a gorgeous autumn day, 28.11.2022. The route is between two attractive places and passes along quiet lanes and across varied private land managed in a walker-friendly way; there are many fine views. Weobley and Hereford are connected by a good (for Herefordshire) bus service. The approach to Hereford and on to its centre are remarkably traffic-free.

Start at the tourist information shelter on Broad Street, Weobley (Photo one). The route heads east along High Street and Gadbridge Road before turning right along a path behind houses that soon emerges into fields with clear paths that have great views ahead to the two distinctive local hills known as "The Devil's Butts" (Photo two). The route passes behind private houses at New Street Cottages and continues across fields to meet the surfaced lane at Meers Place.

After Meers Place the route follows quiet lanes through the village of Kings Pyon, with interesting buildings, including its church (Photo three). A footpath leads south off the lane after New Hall; after crossing the first field, the footpath follows to the left of the high hedge approaching a small triangular tree plantation. In November 2022, the friendly farmer at Court Farm confirmed that the footpath through his workplace was an ancient route for people travelling on foot to church, school, shop and work; in June 2023 the PROW had nonetheless been re-routed to pass to the east of the farmyard.

Another ancient greenway leads through from near Court Farm to the lane to Nupton, from where a well-maintained private drive leads steeply uphill towards Nupton Hill Farm before the route keeps straight on at a hairpin bend and heads up across a field to reach the trees of The Vallets, at which point great views open up the the north, including Titterstone Clee Hill (Photo four). The route passes over the ridge of Badnage Wood, with its many large oak trees; once over the ridge, wide views open up to the south and include the Woolhope Dome (see Herled two) and May Hill (Photo five).

Tillington Common and a series of tracks enable walkers to avoid the busy Burghill to Weobley road to progress to The Bell Inn at Tillington, not open during the first part of the week at present:

https://thebelltillington.com/index.html

After The Bell Inn there is unfortunately an unavoidable roadside walk along the busy narrow lane that leads to and from the large commuter settlement of Credenhill. After a mercifully short distance on the busy lane the route turns left onto a much quieter lane that leads to a green lane that provides an excellent traffic-free approach to the northern edge of Hereford (Photo six).

From Roman Road - the northern boundary of the administration of Hereford City - the route follows the Yazor Brook into the City centre. The City Brooks are the subject of a restoration project:

https://www.herefordshirewt.org/loveyourriver

The footpath alongside the Brook leads off Roman Road opposite where the route emerges from Towtree Lane. At Huntington, the PROW is not as marked on the map; it crosses the Brook on a footbridge, follows the lane and crosses the Brook again on a road bridge with a view into the grounds of Huntington Court (Photo seven). The route continues on the lane until branching off it at a footpath that leads across fields to Whitecross School (Photo eight) beyond which is a pedestrian crossing that lies just south of the former road bridge over the Hereford to Hay-on-Wye railway line. The route now follows the shared cycle/footpath signed on the far side of the pedestrian crossing (Photo nine).

The route passes Brooks Restoration Project interpretation boards by Trinity School and then Yazor Road (Photos ten and eleven), before reaching the "splitter weir" where the Widemarsh Brook dives under the footbridge while the former leat that once fed the City Ditch continues ahead over a concrete threshold (Photo twelve). The route follows the (usually dry) former leat to reach the "Global Home of Cider" (Photo thirteen). To access the ancient city centre, the route goes under the inner ring road in an underpass with the outline of the former City Ditch marked on its side walls (Photo fourteen).

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