Sunflowers at Becketts Farm - Walk for the Public on 26 July

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Meeting arrangements:
This walk offers the option of joining for 6-mile route using public transport or 4.5 mile circular using a car.
BY BUS: Meet the walk leader at Bus Stop KJ for Diamond bus 150 at 10.00 am (bus departs 10.12) opposite All Saints Medical centre on Vicarage Road, Kings Heath, B1 7RA. We will travel to The Packhorse Inn, Wythall. Day ticket £5.50, Centro bus pass, Free. Travel From City Centre to Kings Heath catch Buse50 or 35 at opposite Moor Street Station. Outer circle No. 11 stops at All Saints Medical centre, Kings Heath. Return by bus is from The Maypole. Buses 150, 50, 49.
BY CAR. Meet at the Packhorse Inn car park, Wythall, B47 5HA at 10.25 am.
The walk will start from the Packhorse at 10.30am.
From the Packhorse Inn, the route goes south through snicketts and fields to Wythall Country Park which is a private park held in trust for the community. After a circuit here we go west to Malt House Farm, crossing fields to join the North Worcestershire path temporarily. The route then circuits Kings Norton golf club through woodlands and emerges near St Mary’s decommissioned church. Following the lane, we enter Becketts Farm and make our way to the Sunflower display. It will be busy but we will have our snack, coffee and toilet break here. Having admired the display, we exit Becketts and return via lanes and fields to the Packhorse Inn. For those on the bus, we’ll continue on footpaths north, to the Alcester Road and on the Maypole Roundabout to catch our buses home. Terrain: Field paths, woodland paths, lanes and tracks with some muddy patches. About 6 stiles. Becketts started planting fields of Sunflowers and wild flowers in 2021. They invite donations and raise funds for a chosen charity. Hopefully, the flowers will be dazzling us at the end of July.

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