This is actually two walks:
Walk 3a (marked red on the map), about 25 minutes, and Walk 3b (marked purple on the map, following on from Walk 3a), about 45 minutes
Both walks can be muddy in winter.
Walk 3a
The walk starts between Ansley Fish Bar and the old Police House. Follow the path as it takes you to the backs of the gardens, along the side of a field and on to the golf course. From here there are good views over the fields and woods towards Old Arley.
Turn left and follow the top of the golf course until you reach the kissing gate in the corner, where you rejoin the path.
Go through the gate and turn left. This brings you back to Birmingham Road, not far from the Post Office. Cross Birmingham Road and head right, in the direction of the Lord Nelson pub. Turn left before you get to the pub, down Croft Mead. Turn left again before you reach the bungalows, and follow the path along the top of the allotments.
Ansley Village allotments
The path continues straight ahead and leads you out into St Lawrence, the other side of the road from Ansley Fish Bar.
Walk 3b
Follow walk 3a until you get to the golf course. Then bear slightly to your right and, watching out for golfers, head across the fairways. Stay to the left of the ditch when you reach it, and go straight on to the footbridge over the railway.
Cross the railway bridge and keep left. The path continues to the left just after the bridge, through a gate into the wood (which can be very muddy and slippery in winter). At the top end of the wood go through the kissing gate into the field on your right. Cross the field to its north-eastern corner and go through the kissing gate.
You now come out into Arley Lane. Turn left and walk up to the roundabout, then carry on the other side of it, along Tunnel Road. When you reach the junction with Nuthurst Crescent you will see a kissing gate directly in front of you. Go through it and turn left.
Follow the path with the new houses on your left. (The map is too old to show them.) The path brings you out by the bungalows in Croft Mead, where you can rejoin walk 3a back to St Lawrence.
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