Walk information
Start - Sutton Coldfield (A 20 minute journey from New Street, every 10 minutes on a Saturday)
Finish - Coleshill Parkway (A 15 minute journey to New Street, every 30 minutes on a Saturday)
Geocaches - 5 Found
Notes from the Field - Mappiman's Blog
Distance - 8.1 Miles
Refreshments - You have to get out of Sutton Coldfield. Which means walking past a McDonalds. If you can do that (and the author failed), then there is the Anvil Pub on the outskirts of Sutton Coldfield and the Cock Inn in Over Green - just about the half way point on today's leg.
Terrain - Lets play good news/bad news. Good News - its very flat. Bad News - a lot of lane/road walking. Good News - there is always a verge/footpath so not dangerous. Bad News - we end at a sewage farm. Might be a stage to rethink.
Walk Information
Originally, I was aiming to finish at Water Orton. However, the trains are super irregular - only one every 2 hours mid week and one an hour on Saturday. During my planning, I found Coleshill Parkway - which is brand new and not even on my OS Map. Decided to make this our destination. I had failed to notice the sewage farm.
Our walk starts in Sutton Coldfield. You could spend an age here, plenty of shops, pubs and restaurants and signs imploring you to investigate the historic high street. When you have had your fill of the town, we walk through Rectory Park and out along roads into the Warwickshire Countryside. It is proper countryside, but I there is no way through on footpaths, so we have to walk along lanes for a couple of miles. This is much safer than stage 2 - there is a good grass verge to keep out of the way of any traffic. We hit the village of Over Green at the half way point and it has a fine pub. We also enter Wishaw, which is very close to the Belfry. Curdworth is our third village (location of first skirmish of the English Civil War) before we cross the M42/M6 Toll Road intersection, thankfully on a bridge. We then have a fairly awful bit of industrial complex to negotiate, crossing the much broader River Tame, before arriving at Coleshill Parkway.
Finish - Coleshill Parkway (A 15 minute journey to New Street, every 30 minutes on a Saturday)
Geocaches - 5 Found
Notes from the Field - Mappiman's Blog
Distance - 8.1 Miles
Refreshments - You have to get out of Sutton Coldfield. Which means walking past a McDonalds. If you can do that (and the author failed), then there is the Anvil Pub on the outskirts of Sutton Coldfield and the Cock Inn in Over Green - just about the half way point on today's leg.
Terrain - Lets play good news/bad news. Good News - its very flat. Bad News - a lot of lane/road walking. Good News - there is always a verge/footpath so not dangerous. Bad News - we end at a sewage farm. Might be a stage to rethink.
Walk Information
Originally, I was aiming to finish at Water Orton. However, the trains are super irregular - only one every 2 hours mid week and one an hour on Saturday. During my planning, I found Coleshill Parkway - which is brand new and not even on my OS Map. Decided to make this our destination. I had failed to notice the sewage farm.
Our walk starts in Sutton Coldfield. You could spend an age here, plenty of shops, pubs and restaurants and signs imploring you to investigate the historic high street. When you have had your fill of the town, we walk through Rectory Park and out along roads into the Warwickshire Countryside. It is proper countryside, but I there is no way through on footpaths, so we have to walk along lanes for a couple of miles. This is much safer than stage 2 - there is a good grass verge to keep out of the way of any traffic. We hit the village of Over Green at the half way point and it has a fine pub. We also enter Wishaw, which is very close to the Belfry. Curdworth is our third village (location of first skirmish of the English Civil War) before we cross the M42/M6 Toll Road intersection, thankfully on a bridge. We then have a fairly awful bit of industrial complex to negotiate, crossing the much broader River Tame, before arriving at Coleshill Parkway.