A down and back up circuit.

This is a fairly easy walk, but parts can become muddy during wet weather. As you will see from the map, several alternative walks can be made.

About 5.5 kilometres.

1 -  Begin this walk at the car park in Dark Lane, opposite the Victoria Hall in Broseley High Street. Go down Dark Lane and carry on until the second turning on the right marked 'Public Footpath'.
2 -  This leads you through the Haycop. Keep the edge, or hedge on your left, and follow the path through to the Broseley to lronbridge road. Turn right uphill past Toll Gate Cottage, and then cross over.

Here was the site of the old Coneybury Furnaces which were in use and operated by Mr. Barnett in 1787; in 1800 they were owned by Banks and Onions and were operated by a 30 h.p. steam engine producing some 30 tons of iron per week, but were blown out in 1823. The Toll Gate Cottage was at one time the offices of the Coneybury Furnace Company.

3 - From here, take the minor road marked 'Public Footpath'. At the top of the hill take the footpath straight ahead with a field on your left. Follow this well-defined path through an interesting dingle with sandstone cliffs on your left, and descend to the old railway bridge.

Before reaching the old railway bridge, look over to your left, here you will see the old Tuckies House which was occupied in 1667 by John Langley. The house is of the usual Elizabethan form, but it is suggested that there must have been a house here of a much earlier period. The Earl of Dundonald lived here; he had stew coal ovens at the Calcutts producing tar and cheap coke for iron making around 1786. Also at the Tuckies House resided for a short time Lord Dundonald's son, young Cochran, known as the last of the daring 'Old Sea Kings'.

4  -  At this point you have the choice of three routes (all different following the hillside strengthening in 2015/6 - rewrite)
     (a) the old railway track which is a right of way
     (b) carry on under the railway bridge, following the road round to the left and over the footbridge to the Coalport China Works,
           Blists Hill Museum or the Tar Tunnel
     (c) past the Boat Inn along a rough track to the left past Maw's Works, and then to the right past St. Mary's Church, Jackfield,
          to the old railway crossing. (The old railway track route is easier but not so interesting).

5 - On reaching the crossing past Jackfield School, take the main road uphill and on the right you will see Calcutts House.

This was erected about 1803. The house was also used as a cholera hospital in 1850. There were four iron-making furnaces at Calcutts which were blown in by George Matthews of Broseley in May 1778. Alexander Brodie took them over in 1786 producing 32 pounder cannon, mortars, shot and shell. These were blown out by a man named Foster in 1828, and demolished.

6 - Continue up the hill to a concrete road leading to factory gates and marked with a finger post. At the gates bear right along a narrow footpath running along the factory fence until you come to a waymarked stile. At this point there is a choice of two routes: Turn left here and then right. If you take this one, carry on along a good path past a cottage on your left where you can turn right to come onto the Broseley to Ironbridge road, over this, and up Dark Lane back to the Square or High Street - or, just opposite the right turn, take the footpath going uphill.

7 - Follow  this until you come to the Broseley to lronbridge road.  Cross diagonally over the road and retrace your steps up a footpath marked 'Public Footpath' back to the start of the walk.

8 - After the waymarked stile, the alternative route is over three stiles to the Broseley/lronbridge Road and then back by way of Dark Lane to Broseley. This path can be very wet at times. Follow this until you come to the Broseley to lronbridge road.  Cross diagonally over the road, and retrace your steps up a footpath marked 'Public Footpath' back to the start of the walk.