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Visitors arriving outside Packwood House in Warwickshire. A group turns to walk down the path to the front door, by the front door a small child can be seen.
Visitors outside the east front of Packwood House | © National Trust Images/Chris Lacey
Warwickshire

A circular walk around Packwood

Unfortunately this walk has had to be closed because part of it has become unsafe. Please do not follow it until repairs have been completed. Enjoy this relaxing stroll around Packwood House, taking you through the scenic park and up to the 13th-century St Giles Church.

Total steps: 9

Total steps: 9

Start point

Packwood House car park, grid ref: SP173723

Step 1

Turn left out of the car park and walk along Packwood Lane with the house on your right, until you reach a junction with Rising Lane.

Step 2

At the junction, take the footpath on the right and follow the waymarked posts across the fields to the lane.

Step 3

Cross the lane to join a footpath on the opposite side, following this along a track. Before the farmhouse, turn left to continue along the path, taking care to walk to the right of the field and over the stile hidden in a hedgerow. Walk across the fields to the road, keeping the pond to your left.

Step 4

Turn right along the road for a short way before turning right along Glasshouse Lane, signposted for Packwood.

Step 5

Follow this lane, passing Fetherston House on the right. Ignore the first footpath on the right and continue on to the next, just after Packwood Hall.

Step 6

Follow this footpath around the Hall to St Giles Church.

Step 7

Walk to the far right of the churchyard to a kissing gate towards the end of the row of cottages, signed the Millennium Way. Head diagonally left through the gap in the hedge way and straight onto Packwood Lane.

Step 8

Turn right along the lane, and where the road forks take the footpath on the left, back across the park to join Chestnut Avenue.

Step 9

Turn right along the Avenue to take you back to the front of the house.

End point

Packwood House car park, grid ref: SP173723

Trail map

Map of Packwood House circular walk, Warwickshire
Map of Packwood House circular walk | © Crown copyright and database rights 2013 Ordnance Survey

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