We are the Castle Bromwich Ramblers. We open the way for everyone in our local community to enjoy the pleasures of walking.
David T
This is a figure of Eight walk of 7.5 miles, so there are options of doing the morning walk only (4 miles), or the afternoon walk only (3.5 miles).
If you are only doing the afternoon walk please let me know and arrive in time to start at 12.30
The morning walk will take us over the M5 then along field paths to the ruins of Halesown St.Mary's Abbey. We will then head south following the Monarch's Way over meadows and fields to Iley before returning to the start for our lunch break.
The afternoon walk will be through Woodgate Valley Country Park, passing horse paddocks and alongside the Bourne Brook through woodland and meadows, looping back past the Urban Farm.
The morning walk has some undulations, whilst the afternoon walk is flat apart from the climb back up to the car park.
The Monarch's Way is the presumed 625 mile route taken by Prince Charles Stuart (later King Charles II) after the Battle of Worcester in 1851 to Dorset where he took a boat to safety in France.
Chester Road service road opposite Aldi
Woodgate Valley Country Park car park
