Left Mrs Wubbleyou sat disconsolate on the 07.26 to Snow Hill, and disembarked at Hatton. Walked along the canal towards Shrewley.

Crossed over the railway line and the M40 to Gt Pinley farm, then to Pinley Abbey. The OS map implies there are the remains of a Cistercian Abbey there: I couldn't find them. Also the landowners are playing fast a loose with rights of way: couldn't continue N or ENE, so backtracked to the lane, and under the railway line.

Walked up Pinley Hill, then took the path that runs parallel to the Mway between Station Rd and Hatton Lane. The path is less than a foot wide, a quagmire, and overgrown. There are thorn bushes on one side, and the barbed wire on the other with the S-bound carriageway less than twenty foot away. It's a noisy and, quite frankly, horrible 1/2 a mile, but from the amount of foot (and paw) prints, very well used.

Crossed over Hatton Lane and back alongside the Mway on a wider concrete track that leads past a telecoms mast and shed. Overshot the actuall footpath turning, and ploughed through a sheepshearing set-up, and two fields with barbed fences before rejoining terra cognita at Horsley House Farm.

At this point you have a clear run across open ground past Grove Court farm (?) on the Hatton Estate to Hampton-on-the-Hill and Hampton Magna: probably about 6 or 8 miles of  farm land and tracks with only incidental stretches of road before you hit Warwick's suburbs. Instead I walked back the way I'd come, before turning up towards Hatton, the canal and the station