Route: Leaving the car outside the Queen Elizabeth pub and taking Hill Lane to a short-cut footpath across a field re-joining Hill Lane to Hill House Farm and then up a small wooded track and through a gate into an open field. At a fork taking the right hand track up the hill as far as a flat field where taking a track to the left doubling back, muddy under foot. Eventually reaching a gate into a wood and following a track up through this. Beyond the wood crossing a lateral track and climbing onto a grassy high point (not really a summit) and spotting a herd of deer sheltering in a hollow before descending a grassy field to Lalu Farm. Turning hard right to follow a stony track towards the western end of the hill to reach raised grass covered earthworks and moats, and a Tower. Keeping a stone wall on the left hand side to continue along the ridge for about 100m and then descending a broad muddy track eventually back to the start.
Conditions: cold and damp with low cloud and some snow and hail.
Pub: The Queen Elizabeth, Elmley Castle for Wye Valley Bitter and Same Again.
