Starting point. The opportunity to enjoy quiet open countryside and the delights of the Warwickshire landscape. Balsall Common & Barston 7 Mile Circular Walk A lovely peaceful circular walk through plenty of fields and lovely country paths. Name: Balsall Common, Solihull Place type: Other Settlement Location: Grid Ref: SP 2388 7713 • X/Y co-ords: 423888, 277135 • Lat/Long: 52.39170074,-1.65041264 Cross road and find public footpath between two bungalows. Other famous sporting residents include former England cricket captain Bob Wyatt and Wimbledon ladies single champion Maud Watson. Note - there is disruption to this section of walk due to ongoing HS2 construction. She can often be spotted walking around the village come rain or shine! Take kissing gate into next field and then a further kissing gate into following field. This hostelry is a 16th century building, part of a number of scattered groups of 16th and 17th century buildings across what is now the village of Balsall Common. To help you find the best hikes and walks around Balsall, we’ve reviewed our full collection of trails and routes in the region. It is home to the famous Berkswell cheese made from Ewes' milk. Can you find the pictures on the map and match the pictures to the locations? The circular is now nearer 5.5 miles. Stay up next field with fence left to reach top left corner. Marsh Lane Nature Reserve Marsh Lane Nature Reserve at Berkswell (between Solihull and Coventry) lies adjacent to and in the flood plain of the River Blythe, a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Turn right into lane then after 50 yards cross stile on left into field. ( This is a working farm and during busy times, for safety reasons, a permissive route round the back of the left barn may be in use, re-joining the track over a stile. ) Millennium Way: Balsall Common and Berkswell is a 5.2 mile loop trail located near Coventry, West Midlands, England that offers the chance to see wildlife and is rated as moderate. Ram Hall, pictured, which is passed just southeast of the village, was built in the late 1500's and is Grade II* listed. Diss to the source of the River Waveney and return. From Hallmeadow Road walk up to the roundabout with the Kenilworth Road. Take this narrow footpath keeping coppice left then go through a gate to reach the main road. Balsall Common circular Walk A - . 5 1/2 mile dry walk around Balsall Common. To help you find the best hikes and walks around Berkswell, we’ve reviewed our full collection of trails and routes in the region. The aim is to start in Balsall Common (or within 10 minutes of it) and normally find pub car parks for our starting/finishing points! Parking at the pub is subject buying at least a drink at the end of the walk. This is a pleasant, fairly easy walk including the picturesque flight of locks. maps. These include John Sillett, Trond Egil Soltvedt, Trevor Francis in the late 1970s, Lee Carsley and Robbie Keane. Walk across to take wooden kissing gate into larger field and go along edge of field keeping hedge and trees on left to take stile into lane. Copyright © 2021 Millennium Way. (From Knowle, take the Kenilworth Road, pass through the bends of Temple Balsall and it is on the right after a further mile or so). Around Fritton and Somerleyton. the layby in Balsall Street, join the road and proceed along its wide verge up the hill towards Balsall Common. Continue with hedge right and just before field corner take further kissing gate right, then go left with hedge left. Location: Balsall Common Our Tour recommendations are based on thousands of activities completed by other people on komoot. Browse the best walks around Berkswell and see interactive maps of the top 12 hiking trails and routes. She has also previously enjoyed paddle boarding and hopes to do more of this in the summer months. The main part of the residential area is largely 20th century, a commuter village for Birmingham, following the arrival of the railway. Dave and Sam Asbury. It starts from the Saracen's Head which is on the Kenilworth Road, just before the start of Balsall Common. Remember to please respect social distancing at all times We hope t Lavender Hall Farm (picture left), also Grade II* listed, is a 16th century building, refaced in red brick in the 17th century. Browse all of the details of each route below — and explore more of the nature around Balsall. In 1984 the estate was sold for redevelopment but the surrounding land is still owned by the Wheatley family. Rural walk around Berkswell and Balsall Common led by Bob Reid The Brickmakers Arms, Berkswell This walk begins from The Brickmakers Arms, Berkswell, CV7 7EG. Berkswell with it's historic church, in particular the