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Baswich to Tixall Doosep Walk

 This walk is about 5 miles long and will take you around 3 hours to complete.

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The proposed route uses permissive tracks and rights of way.  It follows the canal towpath and fields passing by the sewage works parallel to the sow.  The walk can be muddy!

Your route can start in a number of places:

From Falmouth Avenue

Look out for the Doorstep Walk fingerpost near the corner of Falmouth Avenue and Falmouth Close.  Take the permissive track across the stile into the field (eventually this route may be replaced by a new footpath starting at this point).  Go across the field to another stile and then down the hill to the gap in the hedge on the right.  Turn left down to the track to the railway bridge, going under the bridge to the canal.  Now follow from  1  .

From Baswich Lane

Follow from   2 .

From St.Thomas Priory

Follow from  3 .

 1          Cross Stoneford Bridge on to the canal towpath and turn right.  Follow the path until you reach Baswich Lane at St. Tomas Bridge.

 2           Turn right and proceed along the lane across two bridges over different parts of the Sow.  The second crossing needs particular care.  Watch out for traffic!

 3          As you pass St. Tomas Priory Farm, after the second bridge, take the footpath on the right through the farm.  Follow the obvious track to the left of the house.  Just before the sewage works climb over the signed stile to the left of the fence and carry on to the road for the sewage works.

 4          Stay on the road passing the sewage works, until you get to the sign posted path to the left.  Follow the track around the perimeter fence.  At the end of the sewage works, head round the bottom of the bank near the river, bearing left on level ground below a water trough. 

 5          Walk straight ahead to another stile with Swimmings Wood on your right.  At a stile next to the gate, go straight ahead towards a covert.  Take the stile to the left of the wood, Black Covert, passing between the wood and Berry Hill on your left.  On the other side of the wood cross the stile/ bridge and then walk over the field to the stile on Tixall Road.

 6          Turn right down the road to the canal bridge.  Turn right on the towpath and head back towards the starting point.  Cross over Milford Bridge to the towpath on the other side of the canal.  At Stoneford Bridge turn left (if you started at Falmouth Avenue) and go under the railway bridge and up the track.  Whilst this will eventually lead directly out onto Falmouth Avenue, for the time being, take the path to the right before the gate.  In the field turn left through the gap in the fence and up hill to the stile.  Cross two more stiles, which will bring you back to Falmouth Avenue.

Well done for completing this walk.  Why not keep your walking shoes on and explore the other Doorstep Walks in and around Stafford!