Walks Around Caldicot Castle, Country Park and
Surrounding Countryside

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Route for the 1½ mile version

From the Lake in the Caldicot Castle Country Park, with your back to the Castle, strike over to the top left hand corner until you reach a gate. Cross the wooden bridge which spans the Neddern. Proceed up the field to the road. Turn right and walk up the right hand side and passing the second children's play area, follow the path behind the houses and go through the gate on the right. Go up to the field diagonally right to the swing gate in the hedge. Then slightly diagonally right to another swing gate. Walk straight on through two more swing gates to the road. (The motorway bridge is on your right). Turn left and enter Wentwood View Estate on your right. Go up an incline and follow the road around to the left. Make your way through the estates to return to the Country Park.

Route for the 3 mile version

Now turn right over motorway bridge, down the hill to a narrow entrance on the left leading to a path with a fingerpost. This path crosses the top of the field and emerges on to a lane. (See route for 4 mile version)Turn left and continue under the motorway bridge. Turn left on to a tarmac path; proceed through the playing fields to the left hand corner. Go through the Church yard and return to the Castle and Country Park.

Route for the 4 mile version

Cross the lane and take the path signposted 'Brockwells' which goes alongside the quarry, emerging onto a road. Turn left, uphill, to Dewstow Golf Course. On the top of the hill there is a house on the left. Take the path on the right of the house and descend through the coppice of trees to a path alongside the practice ground. Follow the path through to the stile on the edge of the Golf Course. Turn left and follow the boundary to the left hand corner, where there is a pond and two stiles. Turn left, then right under the motorway bridge. Follow the directions for the 3 mile version. (The stiles on the Golf Course are the "step through" type).

Route for the 4½ mile version

From the Castle car park, with your back to the Castle, follow the avenue to the left first crossing a bridge over the river Neddern, then along the avenue to the park entrance, to a half-timbered lodge. Head left to a stile at the end of a short lane. Keep to the right going behind a large group of trees.

(On this spot there was a house called 'The Homestead' which was pulled down just prior to the Second World War. The Cobb family, who lived in the Castle, owned it).

Veer left to a gate and continue on the path alongside a railway line, passing a plantation of trees on your left, look for a second break in the line of trees on your right. Go through two gates into a field; veer towards the left to a gate in the boundary. Continue in the same direction to another gate in the right hand boundary.

This path, about 100 yards, runs alongside the railway. Go through the gate at the end and turn left on to a rough track. Walk over the footbridge and up to the road. Follow the directions for the 3 and 4 mile versions.

We hope you enjoy your walks around our Castle, Country Park and Countryside

Access by Bus and Train

The Buses are No's X14 and X74, both stop in the town centre, ¾ mile from the Castle, The railway station is south of the town, a mile from the start.

Website link to Buses: www.caldicot.biz/BUSES

Website link to Trains: www.caldicot.biz/TRAINS

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Please Note
*The area around the castle is subject to flooding in the winter.