[1] From the car park head slightly uphill along Walton Hill Road to reach the junction of St Kenelm’s Pass and Chapel Lane. St Kenelm lived in the ninth century and was murdered not far from here in 821 during a hunting expedition. Turn left, proceeding downhill, and shortly, on your right hand side, find a signposted path concealed at the far end of an extensive layby. Take this uphill into a wooded area and at a junction of three paths take the middle track continuing to climb. Eventually emerge on to a flatter surface where you are joined by a path from the right. Continue ahead and come out into an open area passing the Four Stones on your left whilst enjoying superlative views across the locality (A).
[2] The path starts to drop away and soon forks. At this point take the right hand fork following the North Worcestershire Path, initially down a grassy track, but later into an extensive wooded area with a red soil solid base. Continue along here for some way dropping quite steeply in places until eventually, at the end of a particularly sharp drop, you level out by a small stream.
Cross the stream and take a path off to your right through a gate. Continue ahead until, in front of a gate and before a tarmac road, turn right and proceed down a grassy track. This heads downhill to a cross junction of paths, at which point, turn right again and walk along a red soil track.
Carry on for some way, until the path comes out on to the edge of a housing estate on a bend in the tarmac road. Turn left along the tarmac road with houses to your right and green fields to your left. Continue ahead until you reach the main Bromsgrove Road and turn right and proceed slightly downhill towards the very busy A456 as it passes through the village of Hagley (B).
[3] As you emerge on to the A456 take the crossing lights on your immediate left to negotiate the road, turn left and then almost immediately on your right pick up a path. The path soon twists right and then left before continuing ahead for some way until it meets the B4187 Worcester Road. Cross the road and continue straight ahead along another path.
This path comes out at the end of a cul de sac. Travel down this road which leads to a ‘dead end’ and beyond the last house on your right (lying back and somewhat concealed) take a path which takes you via a bridge over the railway line and brings you out by a school and its adjoining sports field.
At the top of the sports field proceed through a gate, and then another on your right, before continuing ahead in the same general direction along a red soil path. The route is slightly uphill but eventually it evens out, and just beyond the brow, turn left through a gate and proceed downhill parallel to a left hand field boundary and an overhead telegraph wire.
[4] Eventually reach a lane and turn right and then left before continuing along a path in the same direction. At the bottom of this path reach a tarmac path by some converted farm buildings. Continue ahead along what has now become a tarmac path. Take a further path just to the left of a Lodge into a wooded area. At the end of this track pass a pond on your left and come out on to Stakenbridge Lane. Turn left and continue under the railway bridge. Straight after this the road swings sharp left, and on the far side, to your right, take the path that extends away from it.
[5] At the end of this path the busy A456 Hagley to Kidderminster Road is reached. Turn right and cross this road and take the bridleway on your left hand side just a few metres along. The path veers right and goes on beyond a pond, also to your right hand side. As the path straightens out it follows a tall hedge with a wooded area behind it. After about 300 metres turn left into the wood to join a cross path coming in from your right hand side. The path climbs steeply uphill, flattens out and then descends more gently down to the A450 main road. At this point turn left, cross the road and shortly pass through a gate into a field. Carry on diagonally left across the field to its far right hand corner and join a tarmac track coming down from a farm house. Turn left and quickly reach a country lane, at which point turn right and head in to the small village of Broome (C). Take the first right and proceed past the parish church of St Peter on your left hand side.
[6] At the next junction continue straight ahead past Broome House along the road shown as a T junction. At the ‘dead end’ of this road turn left on to the signposted footpath following round to the right past an isolated building, and then proceed straight ahead along a wide track with hedgerows on both sides. At the end of this path reach a tarmac road and turn right along it. After about 100 metres or so turn left up a series of steps and pick up a public footpath. Continue through a wooded area and then open out and drop down on to the road by Holy Cross (D).
[7] Turn left and by a left hand bend in the road take the footpath away on your right hand side. The footpath begins through a gate and beside a right hand stream to a second gate. Go on to a third gate and then continue diagonally across this field to the top left hand corner and pass through a further gate that awaits you there on to the main A491. Extreme care must be taken in crossing this very busy dual carriageway, but when you reach the other side, turn right and look for a stile on your left laid back from the road roughly in line with the location of a speed camera warning sign beside the carriageway.
Continue uphill over a stile to a gate, pass through this gate and then veer half right to the far right hand corner of this field and pass through another gate on to the road. Turn right and continue downhill towards the village of Clent (F).
[8] Cross the road junction with Clent church directly in front of you, and just to the right of the church, pick up a path which continues ahead and uphill with the church yard to your immediate left. At the end of the church yard pass through a gate and continue climbing uphill. Pass through a further gate and continue climbing straight ahead. Proceed through a further wooden gate and continue on ahead into a wooded area. Carry on uphill at a path junction ignoring a bridleway that drops down steeply to your left. Eventually, the ground begins to open out into a heathland area with bracken and gorse as you climb towards the top of Walton Hill.
[9] Eventually reach the top of the hill by the ‘trig’ point and continue straight on. You are now in a flat section proceeding directly along the ridge, but soon the ground starts to descend becoming very steep beyond a line of wooden benches and passing down a steep embankment into a wooded area. Turn left at a cross path and travel parallel to the road until you emerge from the wooded area back on to Walton Hill Road and the starting point for the walk.