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Carlton, a hamlet and small parish in rural western , is traversed by the Leicestershire Round, the and the Battlefield Line preserved railway. The name Carlton derives from the Old English Ceorl’s pale greyish limestone was once quarried locally and tun which means “settlement of the freemen”. The can be seen in many walls in the area. ‘tun’ ending is shared with a string of settlements sited The soils and climate suit mixed farming in a along the spring line on fingers of higher ground which landscape of hedged and ditched fields, with woods project westwards from a low escarpment. and former game coverts on the stiffer clays. This The area is underlain by the Triassic Mercia Mudstone intimate countryside is very attractive for walking, Group which is in turn covered by variable glacial though some paths can become muddy and slippery. deposits of Quaternary age. Carlton Stone, a durable

For more information START: Main Street, Carlton, CV13 0BZ. GETTING THERE: REFRESHMENTS AND TOILETS: The Gate and to report Plan your journey on foot, by bike, Hangs Well sells filled rolls at lunchtime on PARKING: Please park where the street problems contact: public transport or car by visiting Saturdays and Sundays. is wide, and do not obstruct farm gates or Tel 0116 305 0001 www.choosehowyoumove.co.uk or calling Thanks to Carlton driveways. Ordnance Survey: grid ref SK 397 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Email footpaths@ 051 – Explorer map 232 & 233. Traveline on 0871 200 22 33 (charges apply) Parish Council and Carlton Footpath Group – leics.gov.uk for the latest public transport information. see www.carltonpc.co.uk for local information. Local Walks AROUND CARLTON www.choosehowyoumove.co.uk

Walk 1: A very easy stroll past the village A. Where Walk Just after the First World War a forks, walk straight on to the left school inspector commented on Easy green and across fields. There are no stiles on of the gate to Glebe Farm along the lack of dedicated space for this walk, which can be combined with Walk 2. Little Lane. At the end of Little physical education, and was told Lane, turn left between a hedge firmly by the Governors that the 30 minutes START: Shackerstone Walk, at western end of Carlton village, CV13 0BY. and farm buildings. children had their PE lessons on Ordnance Survey: grid ref SK 394 049 – Explorer map 232 the adjacent village green, and if 1.8km B. At the path junction turn left the grass was wet these lessons 1.1 miles N through a kissing gate. took place on the road outside C. Cross Congerstone Lane. the school. This explanation was D. In the corner of the field, turn accepted, and nothing more was left along the field edge. heard of the matter. E. At Main Street turn left to The Croft in Shackerstone Walk return to the starting point. was originally called Glebe Farm, START and was associated with 43 acres B A NOTES and 36 poles of Glebe Land. In E A stone plaque above the door 1921 32.5 acres of this land of Old School Cottage (1 Main were sold, and 9 acres and 28 C Street) reads: perches, known as Hill Close were retained. “CARLTON SCHOOL ERECTED AT THE COST OF THE There is a village history board in GOVERNORS OF THE FREE Little Lane near Point A. GRAMMAR SCHOOL OF SIR The footpath crosses former WOLSTAN DIXIE OF MARKET Glebe Land between Points B and D BOSWORTH KNT. FOR C, with extensive views to the THE EDUCATION OF POOR north and west. The Rectory was CHILDREN OF THE PARISH built on 2 acres of Glebe in 1872 For more information AD 1847”. The school closed in by Rev William Townson, with the and to report 1968. aid of Queen Anne’s Bounty. It is 0 miles 0.6 miles problems contact: 0 km 1 km now a private dwelling. Tel 0116 305 0001 © Crown copyright. All rights reserved. Leicestershire County Council. 100019271. Published 2012 Email footpaths@ Key to map symbols see: www.leics.gov.uk/explorerkey.pdf leics.gov.uk Local Walks AROUND CARLTON www.choosehowyoumove.co.uk

Walk 2: A very easy stroll across fields with A. Across the road from the added to the tower. The previous kiosk, a narrow jitty soon opens building (1764), had a short Easy pleasant views, along a farm track and through out to a footpath across open square tower decorated with the western part of the village. There is only one countryside. pinnacles, and was dedicated to St Michael. An earlier building 45 minutes B. Turn left along the farm low stile on this walk, which can be combined burned down – the parish track, and keep right past farm registers go back to 1574 but 3km with Walk 1. buildings. were only slightly charred and 1.8 miles START: Red telephone kiosk in front of St Andrew’s Church, C. Turn left at the path junction can be seen in the Leicestershire Main Street, Carlton, CV13 0BZ. Ordnance Survey: grid ref SK 396 050 to follow the Leicestershire Record Office. Round. – Explorer map 232 The church clock was presented B D. Turn left along a track to the village in 1937 by the N towards farm buildings at the Rector’s daughter who raised path junction. the money herself by selling E. Turn right along Little Lane, needlework from door to door. C and then follow the road straight It was re-gilded in 2000 to ahead to Main Street, turning celebrate the millennium. left to the starting point. The church contains a window NOTES: by Theodora Salusbury, and houses the Carlton Millennium The letter box in the church Tapestry which depicts every E START wall was manufactured by dwelling in the parish in the year Smith & Hawkes of Birmingham 2000. D A between 1871 and 1881. This model was the first to have an The first field after crossing a upward-pointing aperture and a small stream between points C collection plate in the door. and D is called The Stone Pits. Carlton Stone was once quarried For more information St Andrew’s Church was here, and can still be seen in and to report gothicised by Goddard & Son of many walls in the area such as problems contact: 0 miles 0.6 miles in 1867. At this time 0 km 1 km The Stone House, 24 Main St. Tel 0116 305 0001 © Crown copyright. All rights reserved. Leicestershire County the windows were altered and Council. 100019271. Published 2012 Email footpaths@ the distinctive saddleback top Key to map symbols see: www.leics.gov.uk/explorerkey.pdf leics.gov.uk Local Walks AROUND CARLTON www.choosehowyoumove.co.uk

Walk 3: A very easy short stroll through fields A. There are two kissing gates The verse on the sign reads: on the eastern side of Bosworth “THIS GATE HANGS WELL Easy at the eastern end of Carlton. There is only Road. Go through the left gate – nearest the bus shelter – and AND HINDERS NONE. one stile on this walk. 30 minutes head diagonally across the field. REFRESH AND PAY START: End of jitty on Bosworth Road. B. Turn left along a farm track, Ordnance Survey: grid ref SK 401 052 – Explorer map 232 AND CARRY ON. 1.5km and shortly afterwards turn right, 1 mile keeping the hedge on your right. CALL AT THE GATE N C. Two footpaths cross at the AND DRINK OF THE TAP. bank of the brook. Turn back DRINK AND BE MERRY to your right, to a stile in the middle of a fence, then head AND KEEP OFF THE STRAP.” C towards the hedge on your right. The strap was originally an old leather strap hanging behind the B D. Turn right through a kissing gate, back to Point A. bar, with a list of customers who owed money. Variants of this A NOTES START rhyme can be found at many The Gate Hangs Well public other ‘Gate’ pubs. house was built in about 1860, D A windmill once stood in the and takes its name from a toll triangular field fronting Nailstone gate which controlled the road Road, to the north of the pond at this place. The Bosworth between points A and B. This – Barton road was a section was probably a post mill, as of the – – three brick pillars were found by Burton on Trent turnpike, first the landowner when ploughing. authorised by Act of Parliament Mill House in Nailstone Road in 1759-60. faces this field. For more information and to report

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Walk 4: A walk across fields to Shackerstone, A. Where Shackerstone Walk At B head towards the farm forks, walk straight on to the left buildings, and retrace your steps Easy and back along the Ashby Canal towpath. of the gate to Glebe Farm along along Little Lane to Point A. Little Lane. At the end of Little START: NOTES Lane, turn left between a hedge 2 hours Shackerstone Walk, at western end of Carlton village, CV13 0BY. and farm buildings. The Ashby Canal opened in 1804 Ordnance Survey: grid ref SK 394 049 – Explorer map 232 and follows the 300’ contour. 8.9 km B. At the path junction turn right, Mining subsidence caused the 5.5 miles N keeping the hedge on your left. E closure of the northern part of the C. Cross the road next to canal, but work is in progress to D Keeper’s Cottage, and head restore it to Measham. diagonally left across the field The variety of the emergent towards the end of a wood. C canalside vegetation should D. At the wood, cross the stile be obvious to the most casual and bear right (keeping the walker, and the section from fence on your left) to a concrete Bridge 44 to the winding hole farm track. Turn left along the after Bridge 61 at track, under a railway bridge, has been designated an SSSI. and keep right to Bridge 52 over The was the Ashby Canal. originally part of the Ashby and E. Cross the canal bridge, turn Joint Railway, built B right onto the towpath, and walk in 1873 and closed in 1970. A under the bridge. There is a café and museum at Shackerstone Station. G F. At Bridge 44 leave the towpath, START turn left along the road over the Between 1840 and 1880 there bridge and keep left at the road were small brickworks in fields junction. (The road under the near the Ashby Canal between For more information railway bridge offers a more direct bridges 45 and 44. There was and to report F 0 miles 0.6 miles route back to Point A). also a wharf in Congerstone problems contact: 0 km 1 km Road, where the road and canal © Crown copyright. All rights reserved. G. Turn right through a kissing Tel 0116 305 0001 Leicestershire County Council. are closest together. 100019271. Published 2012 gate and cross the railway line. Email footpaths@ Key to map symbols see: www.leics.gov.uk/explorerkey.pdf leics.gov.uk Local Walks AROUND CARLTON www.choosehowyoumove.co.uk

Walk 5: A country walk across fields to A. Opposite the kiosk, a narrow of St Peter’s Church, Market jitty between gardens soon Bosworth which can eventually Easy and back. opens out to a footpath across be seen on the horizon. open countryside. START: Red telephone kiosk in front of St Andrew’s Church, H. Turn left along a farm track, 1 hour, Main Street, CV13 0BZ. Ordnance Survey: grid ref SK 396 050 – B. Cross a farm track, heading towards a group of agricultural 30 minutes Explorer map 232 across a field to the right of a buildings. Keep right past the 5.4 km pair of cattle sheds. buildings, then turn right up Little 3.4 miles Lane to Shackerstone Walk and N F C. Just past the pair of cattle left along Main Street to Point A. sheds, bear left through a E kissing gate into a field, and go NOTES D through a kissing gate in the Keeper’s Cottage originally middle of the hedge in front of housed one of the gamekeepers G C you. There is no right of way for the 580-acre along the front of the barns. Estate, and the woods nearby B D. Pass between houses and were planted as game coverts. turn left along Main Street, Gopsall Hall, 2 miles west of Barton in the Beans. Shackerstone, was built around 1750 by Charles Jennens E. At the corner, keep straight on the son of a Birmingham along a bridleway (this can be industrialist who was a generous very muddy in winter). patron of the arts. Jennens F. At Shackerstone Barn Farm contributed to the libretto for START the bridleway becomes a the , which was written concrete farm road. 150 m while Handel was living at H A after the farm, turn left along a Gopsall Hall. The remains of permissive path to the corner of a temple, in which some of a wood, then head diagonally the composition took place, For more information left across the next field to have been conserved, and are and to report 0 miles 0.6 miles Keeper’s Cottage. open to visitors. The remaining 0 km 1 km problems contact: © Crown copyright. All rights reserved. buildings, farms and land are Leicestershire County Council. 100019271. G. Cross the road and head Tel 0116 305 0001 Published 2012 across fields towards the spire now part of the Crown Estate. Email footpaths@ Key to map symbols see: www.leics.gov.uk/explorerkey.pdf leics.gov.uk Local Walks AROUND CARLTON www.choosehowyoumove.co.uk

Walk 6: An easy walk to A. Where Shackerstone Walk F. Turn left along the farm track. forks, walk straight on to the left G. Turn right on a fenced path Easy along field paths, with sections on farm tracks, of the gate to Glebe Farm along between a garden orchard and a Little Lane. At the end of Little stable. along a canal bank and across a golf course. Lane, turn left between a hedge 2 hours START: Shackerstone Walk, at western end of Carlton village, CV13 0BY. and farm buildings, then follow H. At the road, turn left to your Ordnance Survey: grid ref SK 394 049 – Explorer map 232 a farm track, then a path across starting point. 6.6km 4.1 miles a railway line. NOTES START B. At the road turn left, and at There are old enclosure banks H the junction turn right. and ridge and furrow on the C. Do not cross the canal bridge, slopes of Silk Hill. To the right of A N but at the nearest end of the the path is a spring, which feeds B parapet wall turn left through a watering place - the name a crush stile and down a flight may derive from the old English of steep steps. Walk along the sioluc meaning a gulley or drain. canal bank, with the canal on Harcourt Mill is mentioned in C your right. Do not go onto the the Domesday Book, and was canal towpath, which is on the worked until 1958. From the other side of the canal. bridge over the Stony Brook, the D D. Bear left across the field to embankment which held back a stile, and then turn left along the mill pond is clearly visible to a footpath, across a golf course the right of the 17thC mill house G and along a track. which is made of Carlton Stone. F E. At the road, next to the The Bottle Neck Spinney is a school gates, turn left down an classic game covert, planted overgrown track, then bear right by Charles and Lady Agnes around the foot of Silk Hill. Tollemache Scott in 1889. E Beaters would drive the game For more information (It is a short walk from Point E birds through the wood into the and to report 0 miles 0.6 miles to the Market Place in Market narrow neck so that they would problems contact: 0 km 1 km Bosworth – keep left with a high © Crown copyright. All rights reserved. fly out of a small area. Tel 0116 305 0001 Leicestershire County Council. 100019271. brick wall on your right, and Published 2012 follow the wall up Back Lane) Email footpaths@ Key to map symbols see: www.leics.gov.uk/explorerkey.pdf leics.gov.uk Local Walks AROUND CARLTON www.choosehowyoumove.co.uk

Walk 7: A country walk across fields to A. Walk into St Andrew’s G. Turn left across boggy ground, Churchyard, and follow the tarmac and then head right up hill Moderate Market Bosworth, and back with a fine view path and then waymarks past keeping the hedge on your left. Bottle Neck Spinney and then down the valley of the . H. Cross the farm track, keep across fields, heading towards 2 hours the hedge on your left, and at the Bosworth Mill and then the spire START: Red telephone kiosk in front of St Andrew’s Church, corner of the field keep left through Main Street, CV13 0BZ Ordnance Survey: grid ref SK 396 050 – of Market Bosworth church. 6.8km a tall holly hedge. The path then 4.2 miles Explorer maps 232 & 233 B. In the wood, keep right, runs straight ahead – first across a N around two sides, and then turn field to the middle of a line of trees START right along a fenced path, and in a valley, then across two bridges then left along a farm track. and boggy ground to a stile in the K hedge opposite. A C. After 175 yards turn right off the track, and head towards I. Cross the stile and footbridge J I school buildings across the and turn sharp left, passing Dog bottom of Silk Hill. Kennel Spinney on your left. At the end of the wood continue D. Turn left and then keep right straight ahead across two fields. with a high blue brick wall on your right to Market Bosworth J. Cross a small paddock, then B H Market Place. maintain the same line across a big field to an oak tree at the E. Turn left along Main Street, corner of a hedge. Keep the cross the road, and turn right hedge on your right. G into Park Street. At the end of C Park Street turn left along the K. After crossing the Stony road called The Park. Brook, bear right and at the F path junction keep straight on, F. At the end of The Park, after D heading towards houses. Cross passing the pillars of the original For more information the road into a jitty between E park gates, turn left onto a path houses, and then follow Main and to report 0 miles 0.6 miles and head diagonally across the problems contact: 0 km 1 km Street back to your starting point. field. © Crown copyright. All rights reserved. Tel 0116 305 0001 Leicestershire County Council. 100019271. Published 2012 Email footpaths@ Key to map symbols see: www.leics.gov.uk/explorerkey.pdf leics.gov.uk Local Walks AROUND CARLTON www.choosehowyoumove.co.uk

Walk 8: A country walk across fields to A. With your back to the gate, turn stile and head diagonally right right (east) along Main St. Opposite towards Barton in the Beans. Nailstone, Barton in the Beans and back. Moderate Orton Close fork right along a H. Cross a stile into the yard narrow path between gardens. START: next to a small factory, then turn 2 hours Church gate in front of St Andrew’s Church, Main Street, CV13 0BZ. B. Cross Bosworth Rd, taking the immediately left through a kissing Ordnance Survey: grid ref SK 396 050 – Explorer map 232 left kissing gate, and head gate and walk along the left side of 6.7km diagonally across the field to a a paddock. Leave the paddock by 4.2 miles N kissing gate. Continue across the another kissing gate and continue next field and through the set of in the same direction, this time single gates. with a fence on your right. E C. Turn left along a farm track, I. Turn left down a farm track. and within 50 yds turn right, J. Turn left where paths cross, keeping the hedge on your right. and follow the hedge on your left. D. Through kissing gate, turn Then cross fields, heading towards diagonally left towards stile in Carlton church tower and Point A. I H the middle of the fence, then NOTES through the next field to the G road. Cross road, and continue Manor House Farm may occupy F J through several small fields the site of the original Carlton towards Nailstone church. Manor. Church Cottage, 38 Main Street, was originally the village E. Just before white cottage turn bakehouse. 42-46 Main Street hairpin left, keeping the hedge were originally part of Carlton on your right, and continue Hall estate yard. through several fields D The cross roads at point F is C F. At crossroads cross B known locally as Harry’s Grave, START into Bufton Lane and turn and may be the site of a burial. For more information A immediately right over a stile In the 17th century it was and to report 0 miles 0.6 miles and diagonally across the field. problems contact: 0 km 1 km customary to bury beggars or © Crown copyright. All rights reserved. G. At the road turn right, and paupers on the parish boundary. Tel 0116 305 0001 Leicestershire County Council. 100019271. Published 2012 after 200 yds turn left over a Email footpaths@ Key to map symbols see: www.leics.gov.uk/explorerkey.pdf leics.gov.uk