Allesley Park to Coundon Wedge

Look closely for the history all around

Transcript of a Coventry Evening Telegraph Country Walk with Ron Weston 6-May-2006 , with updates where needed

4 miles, Map 221 Explorer

THIS walk in the Allesley Village area includes the walled garden from C1780 whose restoration lies today in the hands of a group of volunteers.

The garden once produced fruit and vegetables for the Lord of the Manor whose house stood on the site of the present hall now used as a care home.  Yet more volunteers look after the village conservation area and the Jubilee Nature Reserve while Coundon Wedge is tended by the Coventry Countryside Project.

Take your time and look closely for bits of history dotted about the village.

HOW TO GET THERE:

From Coventry follow the Allesley Old Road from the top of Four Pounds Avenue for one mile to Allesley Hall Drive on the left and follow it to the free car park. GR 301801.

Route Directions

• Follow the walled garden sign straight ahead past Dovecote Cottages on the left to reach the walled garden also on the left.   [The garden is open daily from about 9:30am to 5pm (Golf Hut staff should open it each day). For more details about the garden, see Allesley Park Walled Garden Group ]   Continue on the path to circle the far end of the park and follow it to the children's play area on the right.
   
• Turn left over the footbridge spanning the Birmingham Road and in a few yards double back down the Tarmac path to enter the Jubilee Nature Reserve and follow the trail to join the road.
   
• Turn left for 150 yards and at the far side of the Elms Hotel turn right into an unmarked footpath and follow it into the churchyard. [To the left of the entrance to this path is a gate into the Rob and Molly Anderson Memorial Garden ]
   
• Bear right past the church and exit into a meadow through a kissing gate in the corner and turn diagonal left to join Church Walk.
   
• Turn right for 65 yards and turn left into the woodland burial ground at the kissing gate and follow the hedge on your right through the next two gates.
   
• Go forward over the brick footbridge and turn sharp right to follow the river beneath the road bridge into a meadow.
   
• Turn left to cross a footbridge when it comes into view and continue parallel with the road through the fields until the path turns right into the corner.
   
• Join the lane through the gate and turn right to pass a farm on the left and continue to the perimeter fence of the school on the right.
   
• Turn right into the meadow and ignore the enclosed path on your left but bear left around the school to pass through a field gate in the right corner.
  
• Walk on along the railings of the school playing fields for 160 yards and enter the meadow on your right through a kissing gate and continue on the other side of the hedge into the corner.
   
• Exit at a cluster of gates and turn left along the edge of the wood and at the top turn right to the next corner.
   
• Ignore the gate on the left and turn right to pass the allotments and go straight ahead into a meadow and follow the hedge on the left to the corner.
   
• Turn left along the brook and go on to the far end of the pond with a bench seat and turn right over a footbridge.
   
• Go forward into the meadow and retrace your steps beneath the road bridge and climb the steps on to the road.
   
• Turn right to the 40mph sign and turn right into Church Walk to return to the gate where you made the earlier exit.
   
• Head for the church and go straight ahead through the churchyard to descend the steps into Allesley Village.
   
• Cross into the lane opposite and recross the footbridge into the park and go forward to reach the hall and the car park.
   

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Good for Dogs rating:  

Some parts  good for dogs, but other parts involve farmland.

Maps

For a more detailed map see Map21 G12 to I11 and Map22 J11 to K9 (best viewed together on All Maps page)