Illey Mill is the deceptively looking 'derelict' house on Illey Lane by the road bridge over Illey Brook. On the other side of the brook from the house and on the same side of the road as the 'boarded up' house, is a rough, unmaintained, pull in for cars to park. The new path is directly above where the cars park. You walk up a grassy slope with a half-broken wooden stile behind you (don't go over it). The path, towards Halesowen, takes you alongside a post and rail fence and hedge until it comes out on the grass and bluebell covered road verge where I started digging out a path away from the bluebells last week. Until the Council stopped me!
What I call the toll house is the white house on Bromsgrove Road at its junction with Illey Lane. One fork of Illey Lane takes you along the side of this toll house and is now no longer a road but a tarmaced path.
Please try again to find the Illey Lane secret passage footpath with its S bend section as you slide round trees in the middle of the path and walk over an ivy-covered carpet - and then keep walking - forever!!
No comments:
Post a Comment