[1] Leave the car park and walk straight across the Common, between two clumps of bushes, to the road on the other side. Take the footpath, signposted Upper Tas Valley Walk, which passes to the right of Fairview House to the right of garage . After 100 yards the path turns right and goes over a stile into a paddock. Cross the paddock to another stile in the far left-hand corner. cross field to hedge follow to track turning left at waymarker bearing right at bottom of field. Where the path meets the road cross over and go through a wooden gate into a wooded area. If you do not wish to go through the paddock were there are loose horses cross the road from car park turn right till in line with the church left across the common over main road head towards a set of large metal gates path to the left follow hedge to the end were you turn right joining the main rout 6
[2] The path meanders through a boggy area, over a footbridge, and turns left into a wood. Emerge from the wood onto a grassy field path and follow this, past a path to the left signed Ketts Country, to a kissing gate.
[3] Here take a diagonal path going uphill on the right. Towards the top of the hill the path runs alongside a hedge and follows this to a crosspath. Turn left and follow the track onto another farm track which turns right leading towards the church now clearly visible ahead. Within a short distance the path turns right into the drive of Swardeston House and bends round to the left leading to the pretty church lychgate.
(A) This is Saint Mary the Virgin, the church where the father of Edith Cavell was minister and where he and his wife are buried. Their tombstone is clearly signed to the north east of the church. Edith was born in 1865 and was executed for her heroic endeavours in 1915. In the church are further mementos of the heroine including photographs and a portion of the cross from her original grave in Brussels. After the war her remains were returned to England and reburied in the grounds of Norwich Cathedral in 1919. Swardeston Church holds the Cavell Festival each year on the weekend nearest the anniversary of her death (12 October) and always has a fine show of flowers.
[4] Leave the churchyard by the lychgate and turn left to the main road. Cross the busy road and go along Wood Lane opposite until it bears right. At this point take the track to the left. After 400 yards at the end of the hedge turn right and cross the field to the hedge. Turn left and keep alongside the hedge to the road. Turn right along the road, Gowthorpe Manor, with its ornate chimneys, is visible among trees on the left. Pass the Manor and a house on the right, go past a pond, surrounded by shrubby vegetation, and take a diagonal path on the right heading for an electric pole in the Centre of a field. This path is sometimes difficult to use the alternative is to follow the path to the left along the hedge to corner bearing right behind the cottages to the hedge turn right to the woods to rejoin the path 7
[5] From the electric pole follow the path half right to a point against the far hedge. Turn left to follow the line of the hedge to the end of the field to go through a small thicket by a pond. Cross the next field to meet a broad farm track. Turn right onto this track and follow it back to Mulbarton Church, At the Village Common turn left to return to the car park.