Route is currently closed on the southside of the footbridge over the M6 Toll. No notices to officially close it so no indication when and if it might reopen. Only option at present is to use A34 crossing of Toll....

Ken

The traffic noise along the A34 blots out any potential enjoyment even when there are fields alongside. There are buildings and features of interest on the approach to Bloxwich....

Ken

Walked from Great Wyrley to Norton Canes. Cross the A5 with care and go left to find another wet and muddy field path over another stile. The Norton Canes meeting point is outside the Co-Op and like the Great Wyrley one it lacks seats....

Hugh Hudson

The route is very simple - from the meeting point in Bloxwich we follow the pavement of the A34....

Hugh Hudson

Crossing the A5 can be tricky and there's also a road crossing at Hatherton which requires caution....

David Sanderson

Heading west along a deserted Coppice Lane on a Bank Holiday I did wonder if the industrial estate at the end would make it busy on working days. I regretted taking the footpath to the canal as the link from path to towpath is a steep bank, a slip could have had me in the canal. The footpath through the site of Wyrley Grove Colliery is signed and a stile by the open gates into the now haulage yard gave confidence but being a Bank Holiday all the trucks were parked up and I failed to locate the path where it left the yard. However a path is signed the 'Timberland Trail' and some work has been carried out to make a path available....

Ken

I walked Great Wyrley (Landywood) to Norton Canes. The path alongside The Star starts in the recreation ground but soon dives into woodland along Great Wyrley FP7. Turning back I did note the sign on the approach to estate roads "Private Road Residents Access Only" this is unadopted and unrecorded as highway which leaves Great Wyrley FP7 officially a dead end path....

Ken

The first section is through residential Great Wyrley until it deposits you on to the A34 which you don't even leave to get to the Bloxwich meeting place. Having left Great Wyrley, you are in open countryside with farmland to either side and the high flats of Bloxwich and Walsall ahead....

David Sanderson

The Brownhills end doesn't make clear how you join the Maclean Way and the volunteer seems to have been under the impression that the roundabout is flat where as actually the old railway is under the road level...

David Sanderson

Crossing Lime Lane is easy and you join the not very well maintained Wulfrun Way. There is a bit of a scramble down to the canal which you follow for a while before going back on to Lime Lane to cross the bridge. From there the route is reasonably easy to follow via tracks, crossing a field and then walking along Jones Lane which is open and has a wide enough verge to step on to....

David Sanderson

Just after you cross the M6 Toll you are directed down Hawthorne Lane in Littlewood....

David Sanderson

As you emerge on the other side the way takes you through quiet residential streets and as then as you come into Great Wyrley the occasional main road....

David Sanderson

There the footpath seemed to disappear and despite my efforts proved unwalkable (uneven and overgrown) despite being clearly marked as a right of way (Photo 1). I went to the other side of the copse to see if the footpath could be picked up (Photo 2) but all I could see were fields of horses with no footpath marked where it should be....

David Sanderson

Starting through a residential section of Great Wyrley the route reaches the Star Pub where it crosses the A34 and cuts down a footpath through a field and into woodland. Crossing into a field the footpath emerges on the A5 which required patience to cross....

David Sanderson