[1] From Sarehole Mill car park, follow the track on the left across a small wooden bridge into Sarehole Mill recreation ground. Keeping the River Cole on your right, walk round the recreation ground until you reach the ford at Green Road. Cross Green Road and follow the tarmac path beside the River Cole until you reach Stratford Road.

(A) Shire Country Park and Greet Mill Meadows is an area of outstanding natural beauty and historical interest. The Shire Country Park comprises the Millstream Way, following the course of the River Cole between Yardley Wood and Small Heath, the Chinn Brook Recreation Ground, Coxmoor Woods and a number of satellite sites. The Park contains wetlands, grasslands, woodland and heath,which supports a wealth of animal and plant life. Trittiford Pool is a good site for bat watching during late spring and summer, and the pool supports breeding wildfowl including Swans, Great Crested Grebes and Coots. Nearby Scribers Lane SINC is a diverse site with mixed broadleaf woodland containing wet flushes and ditches, a disused millrace and a wetland scrape. Over the past few years there have been reports of Otter, Water Vole and Water Rail in this area.

[2] Cross Stratford Road and turn right across the bridge over the River Cole. Rejoin the path on the other side of the river. Follow the tarmac path until you reach Forman’s Road.

[3] Cross Forman’s Road and continue along the path between the houses. “Run a muck” Community Compost yard is on your left. Where the path forks, take the right hand path into a wooded area. Follow the path round in an anti-clockwise direction until it rejoins the path between the houses back onto Forman’s Road.

[4] Cross Forman’s Road and turn left. Take the second turning on the right into Leominster Road – a residential road with trees along both sides. Continue to the end of the road. At the junction with Shaftmoor Lane, turn right.

[5] At the junction with Stratford Road, cross both roads at the traffic lights. The College Arms pub is on your left. Turn right and cross over Sarehole Road.

[6] Turn left to rejoin the path beside the River Cole. A sign reads ‘Shire Country Park and Greet Mill Meadows’.  Return to the Recreation Ground and Sarehole Mill by the path taken at waymark 1.

Shire Country Park Friends website pages:

http://www.shirecountryparkfriends.org.uk/theshire.htm

http://www.shirecountryparkfriends.org.uk/burbury.htm