Beverley Westwood, Black Mill and Burton Bushes Circular

Six hundred acres of unfenced common pasture rising straight out of the top of town, five minutes from Saturday Market. The route climbs from the Westwood Road cattle grid across open grass to the stump of Black Mill, cuts north-west into Burton Bushes (the last surviving fragment of old wood-pasture on the common), then returns along the north edge and down the Cinder Footpath, the metalled path named in the Pasture Masters' own byelaws that runs from Sterne's Corner on York Road to Westwood Road. There are no fences and no gates once you are on, so a dog can run, but cattle and sheep are turned out from April to December and two unfenced public roads cross the common. The Pasture Masters' byelaw 14 asks only for proper control, not a lead, but a golf course and a racecourse occupy parts of the grass and neither is somewhere to let a dog loose.