A Birding walk from SwanLake Car Park(approx 4.4mls or 7kms)
From the car park go left following the path aroundSwanLake to Straw's Bridge. Pass under the bridge and take the path to the left. Follow this path with a pond on the right and, just after passing two benches close together, turn left away from the pond and up some steps to reach the top of an embankment. To the right the Nutbrook Trail can be seen, drop down the embankment to join the trail(1).
Turn left onto the trail to reach a lake on the right and Pewit Carr Nature Reserve on the left. Take the path left over a wooden bridge and through the nature reserve to reach a raised bank, the line of an old railway(2). Turn right along the bank following the path through birch woodland, and eventually joining a tarmacked track coming in from the right. Pass through an open area and, keeping left, follow the tarmacked track to reach a road edged with concrete blocks(3).
Go right on the road as it leads down between two houses, The Nook and The Brook, and then under a bridge into open country (if there is a lot of water under the bridge there is an alternative track on the left that rejoins the road at Head House Farm).
At the farm carry on ahead through a gate and, with views of Shipley Hill, follow the track to a T junction(4). Turn right and follow this bridleway as it bends sharply left and crossing a concrete bridge heads up to Lodge Farm Riding Stables.
The path turns right past the farm and, after a short distance, as it bends left, the Nutbrook Trail (finger post and blue cycleway sign), joins from the right, turn right on to the trail(5).
After about half a mile a track from Shipley Common crosses and a gate narrows the trail (blue cycleway 67 sign). Just beyond the gate a path on the right leads diagonally down to the NCT settling lagoons(6). Just before the gated entrance to the lagoons go up a raised bank to the right and follow the bank top around the lagoons before returning to the Nutbrook Trail. Turn right on to the trail. Follow it back to the lake and the first section of the walk, returning to Straw's Bridge and the car park.