Walking Festival Information Booklet - Sport Across Staffordshire

ank holiday
monday
6 May
10.00 am
Little Haywood
a walk for health
This walk includes the canal towpath and fields as
well as quiet country lanes. Refreshments are
available in the Red Lion after the walk.
meet Lamb and Flag Pub, Main Road,
Little Haywood ST18 0TS
call 07790 113 798
10.00am
Rising Brook
a walk for health
This walk includes quiet lanes and green spaces not
far from this popular shopping centre. Pushchair and
wheelchair friendly.
meet Brook Café, Rising Brook Baptist Church,
Burton Square, Stafford ST17 9LT
call Ian 01785 211 400
10.30am - 2.30pm
BlueBells
and BlOssOm
walking festival - book now
Come along to Sugnall Hall just outside Eccleshall to
explore this beautiful country estate. The walks start
in the walled kitchen garden at Sugnall, where the
pear trees should be in flower. Walkers can guide
themselves around the local network of recently made
permissive footpaths through the fields with good
views, using a map provided, and/or join a morning
or an afternoon guided tour of the bluebell woods
and their ancient fishpools.
Guided tours take about one hour and are not
demanding although stout shoes are recommended.
The footpaths followed connect to others allowing for
longer independent walks; for example there is a
good 4 mile circuit around the 40 acre Copmere pool
via The Star Inn, or you can range even further by
going westwards onto Gratewood Heath and towards
the Bishop’s Woods.
Leaflets on the walled garden and its history, the
Sugnall Farmer’s Markets, the Jackson’s Coppice and
Marsh Nature Reserve, are available free and other
local history booklets are on sale in the bookshop.
There is a nominal charge of £2 for entry to the estate
payable on the day. The estate has a lovely tea room
where you can buy a refreshing cuppa
and slice of cake.
meet Outside the tearoom in the walled
kitchen garden, Sugnall Hall,
Sugnall, ST21 6NF. Parking is
available in the business centre
car park opposite the hall.
call 01785 850 820