The trail wends from the Arrow to the Lugg Valley via Wapley Hill Fort, an impressive multivallate Iron Age fort, part of which extends to five concentric ramparts. A deep shaft within is described by archaeologists as a ‘sacrificial pit’ or ‘ritual shaft.’ Byron came walking on Wapley with his lover’s children and one of them threw a stone at his head. He made a fuss. “The stone being very sharp, the wound bled rather profusely.... it just missed an artery,” he moaned to a friend.

On a cliff, high above the Lugg is the fine country house the poet described as “my place at Kinsham.” In early 1813, work was being carried out at Kinsham Court, to ready it for Byron. He never took up residence, but it may have served as an occasional love nest. Byron visited the adjoining Kinsham Church and churchyard, scorning “the most facetious epitaphs I ever read!”

Through a lovely oak wood on Cole’s Hill, the trail descends along an ancient hollow way to Lingen.