Clifton Campville

Monday 5th October
We decided on an afternoon walk so drove to Clifton Campville near Tamworth, Staffordshire.
We parked on the main street and then walked towards the church which had an interesting millenium tower of tiles, with villagers names on. We had a stroll through the new plantations on Coneyberry Green and then crossed the road and headed across ploughed fields.
We had problems at one footpath junction as the footpath had been ploughed up whilst harvesting potatoes and there was no footpath direction sign. We ended up on the wrong side of the field but eventually got back to the right path.
We walked beside a fishing lake and a stream for a while with the path surprisingly going through hedges and over bridges, and not around the field edge as it looked like it should do.
We chatted to a dog walker for a while as he complained about the lack of signage on the paths and asked whether you could walk to Clifton across the fields. We assured him you could.
We headed towards Haunton but found that the footpath across the field was blocked so we followed the road. Haunton was a small village with a convent, a nursing home and lots of catholic statues.
Having solved the clues of a multicache, which we found in Twizzle lane we walked back to Clifton Campville. We diverted off to find a cache, which involved walking through a new housing estate and what appeared to be someones garden, but the path went around the back to a field. As we hunted for the cache a lady appeared and asked if we had found it. She was very chatty and said she enjoyed meeting the people who came to hunt for the cache. The walk was 11km.