[1] Exit the Leisure Centre car park and turn left. After crossing the bridge over the canal bear left to go under a subway. Turn right on a footpath steeply up a short incline which leads to a bridge over the railway. Do not cross the bridge but follow the path through the woods with the railway on your left. This eventually leads back to the road. Continue in the same direction soon passing a bus-stop.
Where the road bends right leave it to go left on a tarmac track and cycle path. Follow this path ahead passing right of house no.58. Continue in the same direction following the winding road through the housing development.
On reaching Chalverton Court (Westbury Avenue) cross and turn right, then left onto a tarmac path called Old Chawson Lane. Follow it to arrive at a T-junction by 'The Barn'. Turn right to join New Chawson Lane and then left to go under a major road.
[2] Ignore a stepped public footpath immediately right. Instead continue carefully ahead (no footway) around a right-hand bend. In approximately 40 metres at a sign for Droitwich Community Woods (A) turn right into the woods. Follow a track forward and left. Shortly you will see a small bridge over a brook on the left cross here and walk forward on a rising slope into a large field. Keep the field hedge on your left and cross a stile in the facing hedge into the garden of Salwarpe Court.
(B) Listed in Pevsner's book 'The Buildings of England - Worcestershire' as dating back to the late 15th century or early 16th century. The house is reputed to be the birthplace of one of the Earls of Warwick and was the family seat to the Talbots.
Cross the grass to follow a curving boundary fence over a tarmac drive to pass in front of Salwarpe Court and exit over a second stile immediately left of a high laurel hedge. Arrive at Salwarpe Church and go through the lych-gate, bear right , walk through the churchyard and down the slope to the canal.
Follow the canal towpath, passing Coney Meadow bird hide and reed beds (C) and continue back to Droitwich Leisure Centre.