A moderate route in Warwickshire. Check the GPS track on Outdooractive for full details of the route, waypoints, and terrain.
Starting Point: The Hatton Arms car park, Hatton (SP 241 670). The pub is well worth a visit — good food and a fine position overlooking the locks.
Terrain: Pub garden, canal towpath on Shakespeare's Avon Way, road, Wedgnock Lane, track over A46, activity centre path, field paths, farm tracks, Kites Nest Lane, Brownley Green Lane, Rail Trail, field, road crossing, churchyard path, village road, canal towpath
A thoroughly enjoyable circular that pairs two of the Grand Union Canal's most celebrated features — the great Hatton flight and the pleasant towpath into Warwick — with a varied return across the fields and lanes north of the town. The descent through Hatton Locks on the Shakespeare's Avon Way sets the tone magnificently: twenty-one locks stepping the canal down through the Warwickshire countryside is a spectacle that never loses its appeal, and the towpath gives easy, level walking all the way into Warwick. The return leg via Wedgnock Lane, the A46 crossing and the fields north of the town offers a pleasing contrast — open country, farm tracks and a stretch of the Rail Trail before the route drops back to the canal at John's Bridge for the final eastward leg home. A reliable and satisfying walk that shows this corner of Warwickshire at its best.