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07 l N p lan your walk Britain’s best walks from the experts r Distance 10km/6¼ miles AVIGATION Fiskerton. For taxis, try Fiskerton. For taxis, try at the Carpenters Arms Wood; walkers may also park the entrance to Thistle Storr is a small parking area at www.traveline.info). There Fiskerton ( ✆ 0871 200 2233, 15/15A (Short Ferry) runs to to Langton-by-Wragby and Horncastle–Skegness) runs Local bus service 6 (Lincoln– (www.nationalrail.co.uk). Sheffield; check National Rail Lincoln with connections at Rail train services run to Landranger 121. waterlogged in wet weather. gates; may be boggy or paths with some kissing Fiskerton (TF050720). near Apley (TF119754). visitlincoln.com/langton). Stephen Langton Trail (www. the second stage of Apley to Fiskerton, following Gettin Map terrain: e Start: Where: nd: amblers r LINCOLNSHIRE Lincoln Carpenters Arms, Carpenters Arms, S : OS Explorer 272 & 273; OS Explorer 272 & 273; APLEY

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PhotograPhy: DaviD atkinson the third stage of the overall trail. Carpenters Arms, or push on to The walk ends with a pint at the closed after the Second World War. former RAF Fiskerton airfield, the Fiskerton oil wells and passing the nodding donkeys of leads across arable farmland, of Barlings Abbey. The final leg followed a mile later by the ruins chapel in the village of Apley, landmark is St Andrew’s mortuary programme. The first major undertaking a conservation Woodland Trust is currently through a rural area, where the west. The first few miles lead destination on the horizon to l River Witham and on towards l leg leads via the l Magna Carta architect. This Archbishop of Canterbury and of the locally born journey offers more physical clues to the l This second stage of the Stephen incoln Cathedral, keeping your incoln Cathedral, keeping your imewoods to the valley of angton Trail is less remote and l Type incolnshire Country incolnshire incolnshire

past the abbey ruins and nearby past the abbey ruins and nearby of Barlings Abbey. Walk forwards, footbridge and enter the grounds Follow this until you come to a track at the far side of field. bridle gate on your R) and join a 3. Cross the meadow (ignoring and a waymark for the Viking Way. Gang Wood. Here is a bridle gate until the road bends L near Hardy past the church for about a mile Andrew’s chapel. Then keep going explore the churchyard of St Apley. It’s worth a pause here to then bear R at a T-junction into 2. On reaching a lane, turn L and a field towards distant house. continue on a marked path over a footbridge at the field corner, with a hedge on your R. Beyond and turn L along the field edge walk to a four-way footpath sign of a meadow. In the second field, footbridge and follow the R edge (TF119754), turn L over a 1. START Facing the woods

▼ walk magazine summer 2015 summer magazine walk 08 Britain’s best walks from the experts r l N p lan your walk Distance 11.6km/7¼ miles AVIGATION The Village Café & Bistro www.traveline.info). Traveline ( Plan your journey with eastmidlandstrains.co.uk). Nottingham (www. London and elsewhere to East Midlands Trains from www.trentbarton.co.uk). Keyworth ( Nottingham city centre and Connection) between buses (Keyworth 260; Landranger 129. on older maps.) on older maps.) and the Midshires Way not path between Widmerpool posts. (NB: the reclaimed yellow-topped marker farmland, well signed with across arable and pastoral (SK613304). at north end of Lings Lane and Wysall. Keyworth via Widmerpool e Gettin Map t Start/ Where: amblers r atin errain: Mansfield Nottingham NOTTINGHAM SHIRE KEYWORTH S l : G OS Explorers 246 & OS Explorers 246 &

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▲ level l Time 3½ hrs PhotograPhy: Fiona BarltroP Lane. Take the next footpath on bear L along another track, Wolds Lane (a track) and at the first fork (SK613304), walk south along Lings 1. START From the parking area the Discovering l Way) that was reclaimed under (from Widmerpool to the Midshires makes use of a stretch of path properties. This attractive route now converted into residential 19th-century neo-Gothic manor, church and Widmerpool Hall, a settlements, is notable for its Nottinghamshire’s oldest Wysall. Widmerpool, one of the villages of Widmerpool and heads south from Keyworth via very pleasant walking. This route l between Nottinghamshire and wolds straddle the boundary the Nottinghamshire Wolds. The gently undulating boulder clay, of Nottingham in an area of situated about six miles southeast The hilltop village of Keyworth is eicestershire, providing some l Type ost Ways project. Country waymarks, as this walk describes. waymarks, as this walk describes. on the OS map. Follow not exactly match the route shown indicated by the waymarks does reclaimed path, but the route R. This is the start of new distance to a footpath sign on the along Willoughby Road a short 2. Cross Wysall Road and carry on to a crossroads. Fairham Brook. Maintain direction crosses a footbridge over the straight on along a path that the road from church, keep during the 19th century. Just down (pictured), which was restored the L to visit fine church reaching the tarmac, turn up to a gate and down drive. On village, the path goes through Widmerpool. Approaching the heading southeast towards the farm. The footpath continues waymarks that lead you R around North Lodge Farm and follow the of a field southwards towards the R that runs along edge

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Continued... START START FINISH 1 (www.thevillagecafeandbistro. 1 co.uk) and the Salutation pub 2 (✆ 0115 937 2465, www. thesalutationkeyworth.co.uk) Map not to scale. in Keyworth; the Plough Inn, Representation of Wysall (✆ 01509 880339). Map not to scale. OS Landranger SLEEPING: Vine Lodge B&B Representation of MAP 121 1:50,000 3 OS Landranger www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk (✆ 0115 937 3944, www. MAP 129 1:50,000 vine-lodge.co.uk); Keyworth www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk B&B (✆ 0115 974 5607, www.keyworthbedand 4 breakfast.co.uk); self-catering at Moscow Farm Cottage (✆ 01664 454833, www.moscowfarmholiday cottage.co.uk). 2 VISITOR INFORMATION: 5 Nottingham Tourism Centre, 1–4 Smithy Row (✆ 0844 477 FINISH 6 5678, www.experience nottinghamshire.com). GUIDEBOOKS: Walks For All 4 Ages: 20 Circular Walks in Continued... To download this route and hundreds of others, Nottinghamshire by Jane visit www.ramblers.org.uk/routes Broomhead (£4.25, Bradwell 3 Lincoln Taxis (✆ 01522 899899). Books, ISBN 978 1909914025); EATING & DRINKING: The farm to a kissing gate at the far R 5. Eventually join Hall Lane in Pocket Pub Walks only refreshment stop on corner of the site; then join a lane the village of Fiskerton and Nottinghamshire by Charles this section of the trail is and turn R. go forwards to the junction Wildgoose (£5.99, Countryside the Carpenters Arms, with the main road. The route Books, ISBN 978 1846741845). To download this route and hundreds of others, Fiskerton (✆ 01522 751806), 4. After about 180m go L at the now takes you right through LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUP: Viking Way marker, along a grass Fiskerton village, bearing L at visit www.ramblers.org.uk/routes a cosy pub serving home- Rushcliffe Ramblers cooked food and a selection track and then a headland path a Y-junction to fi nish at the (✆ 0115 953 7652, www. by a hedge. Continue until you Carpenters Arms pub (TF050720). the edge of the village, at a path church; most of the present of cask ales. It also has a rushclifferamblers.org). reach a footbridge. Cross this, junction, go straight on through building was erected around the sunny beer garden. SLEEPING: then bear slightly R across an 6. Alternatively, if you’re pushing a children’s park to the road, with 14th century. Continue along the The Rest, Steep ✆ arable fi eld, aiming for a gap on to section three of the Stephen Go through the gate into the car the church opposite. pavement and turn R at the next Hill, Lincoln ( 01522 247888, in the trees and a three-way Langton trail, then turn L for park of the rugby club and turn road (just before the Plough Inn). www.theresthotellincoln. footpath sign at the far side. 180m along the pavement and L to walk behind the club house. 4. Turn R along the pavement Soon turn L into a residential road, co.uk) has a selection of Ignore the path heading L but cross into the lane opposite. Beyond the club house go through and in a few metres you’ll fi nd an Tuckwood Court. Walk up welcoming, boutique-style go through the gap onto a grass Walk down to Five Mile Bridge. another gate and head diagonally information panel, which tells you between the houses and continue B&B rooms. VISITOR INFORMATION: track with a hedge on your L. Don’t take the signed footpath across the fi eld to the far corner. about the church clock and along the footpath leading north ✆ Walk on to another footbridge near the North Delph but turn R The path now follows tracks along Wysall’s ‘thankful village’ status through fi elds. The path leads back Lincoln TIC ( 01522 545458, and then to a three-way along the one actually on the river the edges of fi elds. Before reaching (marking the fact that all those towards Keyworth, joining up with www.visitlincolnshire.com). GUIDEBOOKS: Walks for all fi ngerpost. Head R then L. Walk embankment and head towards Manor Farm, turn R, as indicated, from the village who left to serve Lings Lane near its northern end. Seasons: 20 Circular Walks ahead past three more three-way Lincoln Cathedral – by now along a grassy fi eld edge. Cross in the First World War returned Retrace your initial steps back in Lincolnshire fi ngerposts, as the route becomes looming on the horizon. a footbridge and continue across home). The church is a fi ne to the start. by Hugh enclosed and swings L past the Route devised by David Atkinson an open fi eld, past a pylon, to example of a medieval parish Route devised by Fiona Barltrop Marrows (£4.99, Bradwell oilfi eld and Fiskerton airfi eld. the road. Books, ISBN 9781909914278); A Boot Up around Lincoln 3. Carry on along the footpath on by Hugh Marrows (£4.99, Pixz the other side of the road, bearing Books, ISBN 978 0857100566). LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUP: R, as indicated, to cross another footbridge, where you join the Lincolnshire Ramblers ✆ route of the Midshires Way (not ( 01522 534655, www.

08/05/2015 16:42 signed). The path heads northwest lincolnshireramblers.org.uk). across ﬁ elds, towards Wysall. On