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Outdoor Physical Activities Strolls on your Doorstep short wAlks ArounD COALVILLE www.leics.gov.uk/walking AGAr nook • centrAl coAville •Strolls Greenhill • huGGlescote • thrinGstone • whitwick on your Doorstep short wAlks ArounD AGAr nook • centrA COALVILLE Snibston Country Park 1 hour easy l coAville • G Hugglescote Circuit 45-50 Moderate 1 reenhill • huGGlescote • thrinG www.leics.gov.uk/minutes 4 A Country Park on your doorstep with views over the town Explore the many green spaces aroundstone Hugglescote • whitwick walking coAlville GGlescote Cademan Wood hu where Jackson Street becomes Wentworth Road, opposite the link to James StreetA short, explorationtake the onpath the edgeto the of Charnwood allotment Forest gardens. start at the children’s play area on Ashburton Road and go across the field following the tarmac turn left on to the bridleway (right leads to Owen Street), and then go right through a gateway into the country Park. At the 1 hour Moderate 7 path. whereMount the tarmacSt. Bernard paths split, Abbey take the left fork with the railings and the white house in main tarmac driveway turn left and follow the road downhill all the way to the fishing lakes. At the nsationaltart by walking Forest along noticeboard Loughborough Road from its junction with the road the distanceA country (as walk shown on the edgein the of town picture on the left). this path takes you through to Station Road. named City of Three Waters. t G thrin - whitwick 2 hours turn left, taking the path by the carp lake on your right. turn right again as the second lake comes in to view, go betweenake the the narrow sign-posted footpath on your (From here you can shorten the walk by turning left and following StationAdvanced Road until you reach left between houses numbered 121 and 127, just before you reach the start at the kissing gate on Leicester Road by the Arc 9 two lakes and through the kissing gate. Follow the stony path gently uphill to a signposted cycleway Manjunction, with compass turn pub.right cross towards over the wall into the wood and bear right. thea stonedfootpath path uphill opposite through the Dennis woodland Street until you). reach tinformationo acontinue, stone circle. Board. From turnFollow where right and walk for a short way before continue steeply up the hill and then straight ahead following the yellow way you first enter the stone circle, count three stones clockwise and take the path on the museum. keep going straight on all the way to the country Park information Board, (just before you reach the museum), carefully crossing the road into the recreation ground. Follow a stony path as far aswhitwick the way markers until you reach the foot of a tall rocky outcrop (illustrated left). skirt your left downhill. c where you turn right. Follow the tarmac drive climbing uphill you come to a wooden gate on the ross straight over another small stone circle to a kissing gate, go the rocks, keeping them to your right. Beyond the rocks turn sharp left along markerthrough andpost, turn right.and Follow then the take dry stone the wall path to its toend the and thenright turn alongside sharp right. a brook. cross a black wrought iron left, by a five-way signpost. here you can either stay on the main drive until the bend in the road the main path keeping the dry stone wall on yourStrolls right. this is a sectionbridge of and squeeze throughtake the the next gap path inon yourthe left, fence sign-posted into froma meadow a gap in the wallwhere where cattle you have may be grazing. Bear left beside the the Ivanhoe Way walking route, through mixed woodland and rocky on outcrops your a good view of the Abbey ahead. A clear path takes you to the road where you turn where you entered the park, or squeeze through a gap beside the gate, then walk to the edge of typical of charnwood Forest. Pause to take in the view of Breedon Hill over stream, over a footbridge,right. through take care a on kissing the narrow gate verge anduntil you over reach ano a signther marking black a public wrought footpath iron bridge. the path is now enclosed the embankment where you get striking views over Coalville and to Bardonthrough Hill the. trees.Go right, At the junctionfollowing of paths, to your shortly right. after Outdoorcross a way over marker another post, wall take and the start footpath Physicalto make on your the left.way Followdown stone Doorstepon your right. Go through a gap in the wall and up through some trees. t the edge of the wood back down hill and, at the road, turn left to return to the City of Three Waters. at the field edge until you reach another kissing gate followed by four steps, taking you past a small graveyard and out the top of the embankment, and then drop down very steeply (no steps) back to the track. turn left AGAr nook • centr A step and skirt the field to the on to Dennis Street. turnc hurch,left. cwhen you reachAbbey Station driveway. FollowRoad the carefully drive sign-posted crossurn towards left and up athe follow the tarmac path straight ahead. ar Park and shop.short t back to the bridleway and then right to Jackson Street (or straight on to Owen Street). 2.1km | 1.3miles l coA by the toilets and follows the farmo continue, trackw past the thepath cattle leaves sheds the .car k park in the corner 3045 steps Moderate uphill, can be rough underfoot cross the recreation groundville back• G to Ashburton Road.A lks ArounD Activities ahead until you reach a junction where you bear slightly right and continue to Hillside Benches withCademan tree roots but well trodden Wood Boots reenhill • huGGlescote • thrineep going straightG 3km | 1.8mile surfaced/ one steep grassy section 2kmPublic | 1.25miles | 2900 stepsCottage (long, then, route) squeeze through a sgaphort in routethe wall good where surfaces/ you can long look COALVILLErouteback at the Abbey3 kissingnow below gates, you. Follow thePlay Boots required 4350 steps on route A short exploration on the edge of Charnwoodrequired Foresthouse which can be avoided/ gradual uphill Meadow Lane to Holly Hayesfor North West Leicestershire 1.1km | 0.7miles | 1595 fencedsteps (shortpath, admiring route) views on eitherfield side can until be youmuddy reach and the wood.4 steps t 2 squeeze stiles area on long route wall and begin to climb up again by the side of the quarry, keeping to the sign-posted path. 2 kissing gates, 1 toilets at snibston refreshments at snibstonA pleasant and varied walk past woodland on your doorstep turn right, back down to the path you will recognise from your outward akejourney. thestone right-hand r path• whitwick through a gap in the squeeze (can be avoided) Discovery Museum Discovery Museum 1 hour Moderate www.leics.gov.uk/ start by walking along Loughborough Road fromRoad its junction1. hour with the road start at the crossroads of the streets Blackwood, Meadow Lane and Hall Lane where 8 the path takes a sharp named City of Three Waters. t Moderate etrace your steps back to Leicester there are a number of local shops. w 30 walking 5.5km |3.4miles 7 alk up Meadow Lane all the way to the campus left between houses numberedDisused 121 and 127, just Railway before7970 you steps reach the LineModerate uphill, and good paths easy whitwick - lville A of King Edward VII and Castle Rock schools. l co ake the narrow sign-posted footpath on your with some field sections Picnic benchesMount St. Bernard Abbeyminutes 5 Man with compass pub. cross over the wall into the wood and bear right. at the Abbey 3 kissing gates, 2 stiles, G thrin - for Ivanhoe Way, a bridleway leading to Whitwickook20-30. outt on your left for the signpost whitwick easy continue steeply up the hillHermitage and then straight ahead followi Recreationng the yellow way Ground A countrysome walk single on steps the edge of townBoots toilets at Mount Urban Forest Park and follow this all the way to St Bernard’s Road in Whitwick. t required minutesurn left on to the bridleway 2 markers until you reach the foot of a tall rocky outcrop (illustrated left). skirt st Bernard Abbey through part of Holly Hayes Wood, where there are numerous paths worth exploring. Leafy tracks and waterside paths near the heart of sCoavilletart at the kissing gate on Leicester Road by the Arc A lunch time stretch for you and a play trail for the under 14s his path takes you the rocks, keeping them to your right. Beyond the rocks turn sharp left along turn left at St Bernard’s Road, follow the road and turn left again into Birch Avenue. Bardon Hill a stoned path uphill through the woodland until you reach a stone circle. From where the main path keeping the dry stone wall on your right. this is a section of 2 hourscoA then, at the next junction, turn right onto Holly Hayes Road where you will see a A refreshing walk to the highest point in Leicestershireyou first enter the stone circle, count three stones clockwise and take the path on the Ivanhoe Wayon walking Comet route, Way through, starting mixed woodland at the and junction rocky outcrops with Samson Road, take the path ahead towards Advanced Alville co 1 hour footpath sign on the left ahead. t your left downhill. c Advancedinformation Board. Follow From Linden Way a well surfaced path leads all the way around the edge of the Urban Forest through the trees.
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