Taken from
Robert Smarts Pub Strolls in Shropshire,
we are featured on the front
cover!
Directions
to start: - Take the A49 to
Dorrington, 5 miles South of
Shrewsbury, turn left signposted
Ryton. In Ryton turn right and The
Fox Inn is the last building at
the far end of the village.
Park your car
in the car park (please let us
know you are going to leave your
car to go on the walk) as you
start and finish the walk at the
pub!
The
Walk
1:-Turn right out of the car
park and walk along the lane.
Ignore any footpath signs on the
right. One hundred yards after
passing Hollywell Farm on the
right, look for a stile on the
left with a footpath signpost;
there is another footpath sign and
stile opposite on the other side
of the lane.
2:-Turn left over the
stile and walk ahead with the
hedge on your right. It is from
here that you get the best views South Lawley
is the nearest hill and further
south is Caer Caradoc, reputed to
be where Caractacus, a British
chieftan, made his last stand
against invading Romans. Cross the
next waymarked stile and continue
ahead, still by the hedge. Just
after the kink in the hedge there
is a field gate; cross the
waymarked stile alongside it and
continue in the same direction as
before but now with the hedge on
your left Cross the last stile by
another field gate.
3:-Turn left in a green
lane and,if there is mud here keep to
the left. The track soon becomes
dry and, eventually, joins a
metalled lane by a former
farmhouse called The Hollies, the
name of which is not shown.
Continue ahead on the metalled
lane until you come to some houses
on the Eastern edge of the
village.Pass the village hall on
your right and continue ahead. (If
you are too tired at this point,
turn left, at the end of the lane
turn left, you will now see the
pub on the right!) The Lane bends
to the right at Ryton Farm holiday
cottages and then bends to the
left.
4:-At the second right
hand bend go straight ahead onto a
level hard, dry track which skirts
the back of the farm buildings and
wends its way dead ahead between
two open fields for quarter of a
mile.
5:-On reaching the next
lane turn left and at the next
road junction turn left again,
signposted Ryton. Walk along this
lane for only 100 yards and then
you fork left again, still
signposted Ryton. This new lane
takes you back through the hamlet,
past the letterbox, and out again.
The pub is now straight ahead.
