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Ramblers Routes Ramblers Routes Britain’s best walks from the experts Britain’s best walks from the experts Central England Central England 12/02/2016 12:39 07 Market Rasen to Nettleton, Lincolnshire 08 Winchcombe, Gloucestershire l Distance 12.5 km/7¾ miles l Time 4hrs l Type Village and country l Distance 9.7km/6 miles l Time 3½hrs l Type Country NAVIGATION LEVEL FITNESS LEVEL NAVIGATION LEVEL FITNESS LEVEL walk magazine spring 2016 spring magazine walk walk magazine spring 2016 spring magazine walk Plan your walk Plan your walk Grimsbyl WINCHCOMBE l MARKET RASEN Hereford l l Lincoln Cheltenham l Skegness LINCOLNSHIRE l Boston GLOUCESTERSHIRE l Bristol WHERE Linear walk from WHERE Circular walk Market Rasen to Nettleton. from Winchcombe, PHOTOGRAPHY: ALAMY PHOTOGRAPHY: START Market Rasen ALAMY PHOTOGRAPHY: Gloucestershire. (TF104892). START/END Winchcombe Market Rasen is a delightful supplying the nearby steelworks The ancient wool town of 1. START Find Winchcombe War END Nettleton (TA110002). town centre (SP026282). small town nestling beneath at Scunthorpe. Winchcombe is one of the Memorial on Abbey Terrace. TERRAIN Generally level, TERRAIN Lanes, tracks and the Lincolnshire Wolds, once Cotswolds’ prettiest, yet remains Just yards from here, descend along footpaths and woodland paths. One long memorably described by Charles 1. START From the marketplace one of the less-visited, despite its Vineyard Street past stone bridleways, some cross-field gradual climb; some Dickens as ‘the sleepiest town in in Market Rasen, walk towards Walkers are Welcome status. terraced cottages, cross the River paths and minor roads. Uses slippery, uneven paths. England’. Market Rasen has also St Thomas’s Church. At the church Eye-catching strands of stone or Isbourne and go to the entrance two railway foot crossings MAPS Explorer OL45; secured Walkers are Welcome door, turn R and follow a path half-timbered houses, inns and of Sudeley Castle’s home estate. and twice crosses the A46. Landranger 163. status, which makes it an down the steps to the road. Cross artisans’ properties meet at the Enter these grounds (footpath MAPS OS Explorer 282; GETTING THERE Marchants excellent base for many of the over to walk along Church Street. pint-sized market hall in the fingerpost) and curl R of Landranger 113. Coaches’ bus services W1, lovely walks that can be enjoyed At the T-junction, turn L into town centre, while one of the the gatehouse on the drive GETTING THERE Stagecoach W2 (Mon-Sat, not bank in the area. It has a railway Waterloo Street, continuing to Cotswolds’ finest medieval (waymarked Warden’s Way), 53 bus from Lincoln or holidays) and 606/606S (very station with a regular service turn L at the next T-junction into churches stands on a shoulder of which crosses a causeway over Grimsby to the start at limited service on Sundays) between Newark Northgate, Walesby Road. Just before the land nearby. Set apart from the a pond then rises to reach a Market Rasen (not Sundays or run to Winchcombe from Lincoln, Barnetby and Grimsby. sharp R bend, continue ahead town is Sudeley Castle (above), gateway before a bend. Take the bank holidays), or train to Cheltenham (✆ 0871 200 This linear walk offers broad along the bridleway along where Katherine Parr, last wife handgate offset to the R; then Market Rasen from Newark 2233, www.travelinesw.com). views of rolling chalk hills and Gatehouse Lane. Cross the railway of Henry VIII, lies buried. Easy walk the field path, with the Northgate, Lincoln or Winchcombe is follows a section of the 95-mile line and turn R over the bridge, paths and lanes meander past castle itself off to your L. Use Grimsby. Catch the 53 back approximately seven miles Lindsey Loop, devised by Lincoln before turning R to cross the the castle and along the valley another handgate beside the car from Nettleton. north-east of Cheltenham Ramblers, which links six market railway line again. Turn L to of Beesmoor Brook, then up into parking area, then drift slightly R EATING & DRINKING Several along the B4632. Pay and towns in the Wolds area. The follow an old woodland track, woods and combes, with grand away from the fencing bordering eateries and pubs in Market display parking in the town, Wolds contain the highest then bear L again over Nova views unfolding across the the castle grounds (old Windrush Rasen, plus the Salutation off Back Lane by the library. ground in eastern England Scotia Railway Bridge. Continue Wolds. The route tops out at Way waymark here). Within Inn, Nettleton (✆ 01472 EATING & DRINKING Plenty on this stone track to the road. a Neolithic monument. The 150m, you’ll pass close to an oak; 851228, www.thesali.co.uk). between Yorkshire and Kent, of scope in Winchcombe. restored Belas Knap long barrow then simply follow the good field SLEEPING The Advocate Arms rising to over 150m/490ft along Try Juri’s Tea Room & 2. Turn R across the level crossing dates back over 5,000 years and path gently down into the valley. Hotel in Market Rasen their western edge. The walk Restaurant (seasonal) on and turn L to follow the field- stands just shy of 305m/1,000ft. At the far bottom R corner take (✆ 01673 842364, ends at the village of Nettleton, the High Street (✆ 01242 which was involved in ironstone edge path. The distinctive white There’s a gentle downhill return the handgate; then bear R, cross www.advocatearms.co.uk); 602469) or the White Hart ▲ ▲ ▼ globe on the skyline is a civil ▼ to Winchcombe. a flat bridge over Beesmoor mining between 1929 and 1969, P55_56_WALK50_RR_NTRAL_fina.indd 1 P55_56_WALK50_RR_NTRAL_fina.indd 2 Ordnance Surveymapping©Crowncopyright2016Media037/16 Ordnance Surveymapping©Crowncopyright2016Media037/16 Continued... Continued... FINISH Inn, also on High Street Salutation Inn, Nettleton (✆ 01242 602359, www. (as before). 4 whitehartwinchcombe.co.uk). START VISITOR INFORMATION SLEEPING Numerous options 1 FINISH West Lindsey Tourism in and around Winchcombe. (www.west-lindsey.gov.uk/ B&B at Postlip Hall Farm in a visitors-/-leisure). secluded location just south of GUIDEBOOKS The Lindsey the town (✆ 01242 603351, Loop by Lincoln Ramblers www.smoothound.co.uk/ (£5.95 plus p&p or £4.95 plus hotels/postlip; the White Hart p&p for Ramblers members, Inn – as above). contact ✆ 01522 682479). VISITOR INFORMATION Several leaflets describing Winchcombe TIC on the High this and other local walks Street (✆ 01242 602925, are available from the www.winchcombewelcomes Lincolnshire Wolds 3 walkers.com). 5 Countryside Service on GUIDEBOOKS Short Walks in ✆ 01507 609740 (Mon-Fri). the Cotswolds (Collins, £6.99, LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUP ISBN 978 0007555000); 2 Lincolnshire Ramblers The Cotswolds: 40 Town and 3 (✆ 01522 534655, www. Country Walks by Dominic lincolnshireramblers.org.uk). 22 North (Pocket Mountains, £6.99, ISBN 978 1907025198). 4 LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUP Cleeve Ramblers aviation radar station. At the last (✆ 01242 573067, tree on your L, turn to walk www.cleeveramblers.org.uk). To download this route and hundreds of others, across a field, heading just R of the first telegraph pole in a visit www.ramblers.org.uk/routes straight line towards Claxby, to a 1 footbridge. The village name is of START Brook and proceed to a nearby up to another gate and bear L 5. Take the CW signed L; a Scandinavian origin, recalling the tarred lane. Turn L along it. through this at the old ‘Ancient distinct path down the slope to Vikings who colonised the area Monument’ sign. The CW skims a handgate into a lane. Turn R; – Claxby means the ‘by’ (or 2. The tarmac ends at the farms through the top of woodland to passing Winchcombe Cricket village) of a man named ‘Klaka’, a and houses at Newmeadow. Use reach Belas Knap long barrow. Club’s ground to reach a lane, Danish word meaning ‘chatter’ or To download this route and hundreds of others, the field gate on the R just past along which go L. At the bend in ‘gossip’. Turn R and walk along visit www.ramblers.org.uk/routes the gabled house, opposite a 4. Turn R into the enclosure, another 300m, keep company the road, ignoring the bridleway road-sign for Winchcombe. passing the jaws of the mound on with the CW, sharp R along an and byway to your R. At the A rutted track strikes up the your L. A stile ahead takes the enclosed path. From the fork by Anglian Water facility, continue footbridges. After the third 4. Turn L, then R to walk sloping field, through another CW alongside the hedgeline of the gate where the enclosed path straight ahead through a wooden bridge, turn R to follow the diagonally across a field, heading gate and onwards to a woodland a long upland field, reaching a ends, bear L across overgrown gate towards St Mary’s Church field-edge path through a metal towards a gate, to emerge on the edge. Turn R through the gate corner where a rough farm lane is pasture to find a kissing gate and Claxby House. This section gate. Turn L to walk beside the main A46 road. Cross the road, here and walk the track outside joined. Turn R, tracing it past the into Vineyard Street. Turn L is a permissive path for walkers. hedge over pasture. On reaching turning R to follow the tarmac the wood to reach Humblebee buildings at Hill Barn (where the along it to return to the centre The church probably dates from the tarmac track, turn L then R footway into Nettleton village Cottages. Turn L up the unmade surface improves) and onwards of Winchcombe. the early 13th century, with to follow a wooden boardwalk.