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Parking for a dozen or so cars on free roadside car park on School Lane, if it's full there is road parkgin in the village not far away.
Quite a flat walk, some road sections and mostlye through fields and grass paths, some of which are very muddy. One stile, but read review as this can easily be avoided without affectgin the walk too much.
There are a couple of streams to cross, and ponds to splash in but even in wet season was not much water around in these.
No bins here
This is the thrid walk on the app whcih includes Knepp Wildlands and all offer something different. See also Knepp Wildlands for a more nature focussed walk, or Knepp Wildland Safari - Orange Route to see the castle ruins. A lovely area to explore!
From the car park walk along the road away from Shipley village and shortly on there is a signpost for the path way off to your left through a field. Follow the path through the fields and woodland paths and you'll eventually get to another country road, go left and ver soon there's a path on you right.
This is actually joining into the 'Blue' walking route of Knepp wildlands now so nice and easy follow the blue signs through here which makes a nice loop which comes back out on to the same road (Countryman Lane) further down.
This section was pretty, but if you're purposely looking to see the knepp wildlife of free roaming pigs, cows, deer etc. then I would receommend the Knepp Wildlands route also on the app/site - much better there, here we only saw a couple of pigeons!
When you're back on the road you can just go right and follow it back to rejoin with the path you came in on if you want (and avoid later stile!), we extended our route a little by going through some farms so went left along the road a little, before taking the next right path.
This takes you through some fields until a very narrow almost hidden path on your right leads you back towards Smithers Hill Lane where there's the most pointless and irritating stile which Hank just squeezed through. Go left aling the road, then the footpath is shortly on your rigth before the farm yard, and this leads back to School Lane and the car park.
Reading that all back it sounds more complicated than it is! And I would recommend using the app and you can simply Load route into the GPS so you can easily follow.
It's not one for off lead freedom, several country road sections, and most fields have wildlife or livestock. It's a nice country walk though, and visting in Autumn was particularly nice with the changing leaves, very quiet too only seeing the odd rambler.
