From the car park we turned
right into Mill Road. At the T-junction we went left, then
left again by the marker sign in a hedge along a track. We
continued along the path as it narrowed and became tree-lined,
then went along the edge of a field. Climbing the steps we
turned right along Marriotts Way, the old railway line, crossed
two roads and a track, then, at the marker signs of a bridle
way and footpath, turned left down hill and along a very pretty
narrow tree-lined path. Reaching a track we kept left and,
on reaching another track, left again.
Crossing the road we walked the signed path opposite, the
farmer having left a tramline through the barley field.
At the track we went left, then left again just after the
concrete pad along another track before turning right along
the country lane. We climbed the bank at the footpath sign
by the electric pole on our left and went diagonally right
across the set-a-side field to a gap in the bank and sign
before turning left along the country lane.
Then, at the metal finger-post
in the hedge opposite a brick barn, we climbed the steps on
the left into the field. We had to ask where was the route
across this knee-high crop? First we turned left up the field,
then made our way to the rise and the electric pole, walking
across the crop. Then we spotted the footpath sign and we
had no option but to continue trampling down more of it to
reach the sign.
If the correct route is not put across the field before this
walk comes out, then we are sorry to say that most probably
a lot more of this valuable crop will be trampled down. We
climbed the stile, went down the steps, crossed the road,
and walked along the path opposite, crossing another road
on this new estate.
At the end we turned left
and continued over the cross-roads along Hungate Street to
the Unicorn Inn. Retracing our steps a few yards we turned
right into Unicorn Lane, and then back to the car park.
Map References 0S Sheet
Landranger 133, Explorer 238: 191267, 189267, 188263,
163260, 168252, 170252, 182254, 184252, 192256, 192258, 192263,
193269, 191267.
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