• Return to Byron Hill Road and turn right…

 

• On your left, you will see an old Baptist Chapel building, now converted into a suite of studios.

 

•   On your right is Clonmel Close...   ///rally.gone.living

 

According to the private plaque on the building shown opposite Matthew Arnold (1822 – 1888) lived here. Arnold was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famous headmaster of Rugby School. He had studied at Balliol College, Oxford University. 

 

In 1844, following his degree, he returned to Rugby as a teacher of classics. After marrying in 1851, Arnold began work as a government school inspector, a gruelling job involving travel all over Britain and the Continent. Throughout his thirty-five years in this position, he developed a real interest in education, which fed into both his critical works and his poetry.

 

Today his essays are more widely known than his poetry. In both, he tried to establish the truths of Christianity, despite his own religious doubts.

 

• Return to Byron Hill Road and walk up, bearing right into West Hill...

 

On your left, you will pass some attractive old cottages with small front gardens.

 

• At the end of West Hill, the road narrows into a short passage and you enter Roxeth Hill…  ///plank.spicy.turkey

 

• Turn left up Roxeth Hill to the junction with the High Street and turn right into London Road...

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The next section of this walk is quite a long diversion but does lead to

the only English Heritage plaque in the area - R. M. Ballantyne.

If you don't want to divert here then

go straight to Page 14

'The Village Green'...