[1] From the car park walk towards the village on the Village Hall side of the road. Almost immediately turn right at footpath sign post, and soon follow the path round to the right. Walk on, straight ahead at footpath junction, and down the hill, with the parkland of Newsells on the right and stud paddocks to the left. Go through the gate, cross road diagonally in the direction of the waymark on the gate and turn left almost immediately through another gate. Follow the track through the wood and at the top of small rise, turn right (not waymarked) through a gate, and down between wooden fences. At the road, turn right.
(A) Shortly, at a junction a War Memorial to the men of Newsells who fell in the First World War faces you.
[2] Go up behind the Memorial, and follow the narrow track through the woods [the broad track to your left is not a Right of Way].
At the bottom of the slope, cross a stud paddock via the fenced path which leads to a tree belt and hedge running to the Cambridge Road. Turn left and walk along the tussocky verge, before crossing the road and turning right over small bridge. This leads onto a cross field path, which the farmer usually re-instates and marks well after ploughing. The path emerges onto a road after a short left fork. Turn right along the road, and continue on (with care) round various blind corners, and through the hamlet of Smith's End.
[3] On reaching a junction, cross the road and pass through a gap in the hedge to emerge on to a good path. Cross over the junction at the top of the rise, and continue straight ahead close to the hedge, then head straight on at the next junction before passing through the edge of a wood. Shortly after leaving this wood, bear right along path which enters the corner of a wood, to twist and turn through another wood, where you may spot deer, ducks and pheasants.
As you emerge, bear left across the field, and on reaching a concrete road, turn left. On arriving at minor tarmac road, turn right, and walk towards Nuthamstead. (Beware of the dogs at the houses next to Morice Green Farm). Ignore the first left in the village, but bear left at a second junction, (signed to The Woodman) and shortly afterward, enter grounds of The Woodman pubic house.
(B) Outside there is a well cared for Memorial to US Air Force personnel based there in the Second World War and the inside of the pub has an interesting display of memorabilia.
[4] Retrace your steps to junction, and turn left. Shortly after Caylers Farm, turn right at a green sign, bear to right of copse, turn left through a hedge, and immediately bear right on emerging. After 100 yards turn left, with a ditch on the left and head straight on to cross a bridge over the ditch at the bottom of the slope. Once over the bridge, walk up the slope with fence to the right, pass through a kissing gate and recently planted woodland. Now pass over the stile out onto a path, head straight on down the slope, over bridges, before heading up a slope with woods first on your right and then on your left (good for bluebells in season).
[5] At end of wood, keep straight on between two hedges and at the end bear right, and then left through the hedge. Keep close to the house hedge, and you will soon find a path with a field to the left. Cross the bridge, bear left through scrub land, and emerge onto a recreation ground. Bear left round the football pitches, and then head left onto a narrow path. This emerges into Barkway.
(C) Note their War Memorial, erected in memory of those who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1919.
Turn right on the road, and the car park is soon on the right.