Ley Hill circular walk: full route

Looking out from the Crown, make your way carefully over the two roads in front and left to the main road (Bovingdon Road). Bear right across it to a path located through a gap in the hedgerow and walk along for 450m to a crossing path.

Turn left downhill and stay on this path for nearly a kilometre to the first turning on the left.

Turn left up a partly paved track that leads to Newhouse Farm and a cattery before coming out onto Jasons Hill Lane.

Cross the road, turn left along it for 160m to a telegraph pole just after Spring Meadow Lodge and bear right along a path that runs parallel to the road. Turn right along the entrance track to Beechwood and take the footpath on the right-hand side. Follow the path around the back of the houses and along the right-hand side of the field to a path T-junction. A kissing gate is on the right.

Turn left across the field and go through a gate in a gap in the trees into a much larger field. Keep straight on ahead for 100m to meet a right angled path to the left. Turn left down to it and go through a kissing gate into the next field. Keep straight ahead and follow the path down to the right- hand corner.

Go through the kissing gate, turn right along the back of some houses onto Botley Lane that leads to the much busier Botley Road. Cross to the footpath opposite, turn right and follow it to reach the turning to Tylers Hill with the Hen and Chickens pub to the right.

Turn left down Tylers Hill Road to the bottom of the hill, turn right into Bottom Lane and immediately left on a footpath leading up to the top of a hill. (Please note: this is a well-used path but is not the official right of way, which is shown in blue on the map). At the top, ignore the first gate on the left, follow the path as it veers round to the left, ignore the second gate on the left, and continue alongside the perimeter of another large field. All around there are fine views over the extensive fields. Return back along the route for a few metres, turn right through the gate, into a field and turn left past a disused stile into the adjoining field. Follow the path to the right, along the boundary of a large white house (in former times this was the Five Bells public house). Alongside the Five Bells a kissing gate exits back onto the top end of Tylers Hill Road. Turn right and you have St Georges Church on your left. Follow the lane up to the top of the hill.

At the top of the hill and with the boundary walls of Cowcroft Grange in front of you, take the wide track to the left heading into Cowcroft Woods. Follow the track all the way through the serene woods until emerging on the far side where dwellings appear and the track expands to become Kiln Lane. Keep straight ahead and Kiln Lane emerges at the junction back at Ley Hill, with the Crown PH and the starting point on your right.