Starting with the footpath sign on the green and passing the village hall on your left and the school on your right, follow the path which will go between fenced gardens on either side. After about 100 yards, you reach a stile, over which you should climb, continuing straight on in the direction indicated by the fingerpost sign on the fence along the side of the uncultivated field.

Going gently downhill, continue for about ½ mile, keeping not far from the hedgerow on your right until, you arrive at a stream bordered by trees. Bearing to the left, in a hundred yards or so, you reach a large opening in the trees, with a wide, planked bridge over the stream, with a fingerpost sign. Crossing the bridge and keeping straight on across the field (now outside Gayton parish), you will climb the hill and over the brow, reach the beginning of a lane, about 300 yards from the stream. The lane, (unpaved) climbs gently uphill for about ½ mile, before arriving at a paved lane at the hamlet of Dalscote. Bearing right along this short lane, you'll reach the road, with the large house of Manor Farm on your left.

Turning left into the road and passing two houses on your right, after 200 yards you should take the footpath signposted to Eastcote on the right. This path leads across a field, passing under the electric power lines. After ¼ mile, the path takes you between houses to the road, where you should turn left. Walk for about a ¼ mile along the road on the outskirts of Eastcote, and then turn left at the T-junction, back towards Dalscote.

After ¼ mile, turn right at the indicated footpath, opposite the sign to Eastcote, going over the stile beside the lane down to the farm. Cross the small grassy field and climb over another stile, passing farm buildings and a small aircraft hangar. Continue straight on for about 200 yards, going gently downhill across the grassy field, and then pass through a gate in the hedgerow.

Take the path diagonally left for about 150 yards across the next field, and climb over the stile in the hedgerow.

Going in the same direction, but bearing right and following the stream on your left, cross it over a plank after about ¼ mile, and continue walking close to the stream and trees, now on your right.

Within ¼ mile, you'll arrive at the wide-planked bridge you crossed earlier. Cross the bridge and continued straight on up the steepest part of the sloping field ahead along the bridleway to reach the gated opening at Eastcote Road.

From there, turn left to take you back Fiveways via Hillcrest Road.

Dennis Shaw