Score on the doors
We are awarded the
highest level -5!
We have maintained this highest
level since the start of Scores on
the doors.
Acknowledging our kitchen hygiene,
management and food handling.
Pub Walk
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.
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