Stainfield and Apley Route

The Walk Map The Walk The Walk 400m Hardy Gang Wood walk Map Scale: The route through the wood can get very 10 At the road turn left and after 11 At the road turn right and after For the shorter route: North ¼ mile wet and muddy. If you want to avoid the approximately 80m turn right onto approximately 100m turn left onto 7 1 Leave the car park and turn left 4 At the fingerpost turn left to visit Barlings wood, 5 bear right across the field to a Follow the road to the right and at Hardy Gang Wood walk a footpath. a footpath across the field, through along the road. Abbey and follow the bridleway over gate and fingerpost at the road. Turn left the next junction bear right and then Hardy Gang Wood shorter walk some trees and across a bridge. the bridge. To continue the walk turn 8 and follow the road for approximately 500m Follow the track for approximately 90m turn immediately left onto a bridleway 2 Follow the road as it bends to the right (along the Viking Way). Walk Alternative route avoiding wood to a junction. Turn left and at the next before turning right into a field and 12 Turn right and walk alongside the drain. (part of the Viking Way). left (signed Langworth). Foxhall Wood walk following the field edge straight ahead. straight ahead, alongside the hedgerow junction bear right and rejoin the directions After 150m turn left onto a footpath Cross the fields, go through a gate After approximately 900m turn left 7 At the field corner turn left over a stile and ditch until you reach a gate and at point . beside a woodland, Foxhall Wood. and over a bridge and continue off the road and onto a bridleway. and immediately turn right and walk bridge at the edge of the woodland straight on across the fields and along Walk across the fields by bearing 6 At the road turn right and walk 500m along the field edge to a road. on your left. a field edge to a road. right towards the right hand to a road junction. The young trees alongside the 7 corner of the copse. 5 Enter the woodland and follow the woodland were planted with assistance 14 Turn right and follow the road to a bridleway straight ahead through from the Forestry Commission’s At the fingerpost, cross the bridge junction. the wood. JIGSAW scheme (Joining and and go through the gate. 9 Increasing Grant Scheme for Ancient 15 Turn left and follow the road back to 6 10 Woodlands). As woodlands get the village hall and starting point. 3 Turn left and follow the smaller and more isolated they field edge for approximately 150m Hardy Gang Wood is part of the Foxhall Wood walk become less valuable for a variety to a waymarker. Bear right across Bardney Limewoods National Nature of wildlife. The JIGSAW scheme 1 Leave the car park and turn left. the field towards a wooden Reserve and is a Site of Special has enabled landowners to plant fingerpost to the right of an Scientific Interest (SSSI). Look out 2 At the junction turn right (signed Apley). new woodlands adjoining existing area of scrub. for small-leaved lime, ash, hazel and 11 ones. Over the past 10 years over pedunculate oak as well as a variety of 3 After approximately 500m turn right The remains of Barlings Abbey can 5 For the longer route: 160 hectares of new woodland has wild flowers in the spring including the onto a footpath (part of the Viking Way) be seen ahead. been planted across the Lincolnshire common spotted orchid. 7 Turn left (signed Bullington) and after Limewoods area. beside a drain. The wood is also linked with the 70m turn right onto a footpath. 12 4 After approximately 350m turn right Part of the church nave and tower legend of the wild man of Stainfield. Follow the path along the edge of an area of planted trees. onto another footpath. is all that remains above ground Various stories about the wild man The mounds and hollows in the fields 13 At the road turn right, walk past the of the medieval Barlings Abbey. exist including one that states that he 4 Follow the path along the wood edge 8 At the edge of the arable field bear you have just crossed are remains church, and at the T-junction turn right Earthworks around the wall indicate was a local nobleman who returned 14 to a road. 3 3 right to a bridge and fingerpost that of the medieval settlement of Apley. to return to the starting point. other buildings of the monastery. from fighting in the crusades to find 2 will come into view. It was established in the 11th century 5 At the road turn right, walk past the The abbey was founded in 1154 by his land had been given to others. He and was granted to Stainfield Priory the Premonstratensians (named after failed to reclaim his estates and took church to a T-junction. Cross the bridge and walk straight in the mid 12th century as a monastic The brick church of St Andrew in Prémontré in France where the first to living wild in the local woods. He 4 ahead along the right hand side of manor or grange. The medieval Stainfield was built in 1711 on a Turn right to return to the starting point. house was founded). The abbey became so dangerous that Francis 15 2 the ditch. church at Apley remained standing north-south orientation. The lumps was closed in 1537 after the abbot Tyrwhitt-Drake killed him and in return 5 13 At the end of the ditch walk straight until the early 18th century. and bumps in the fields either side of and four canons were implicated was given the wild man’s former across the field ahead and then along The current church of St Andrew the road are remnant earthworks from in a rebellion against the closure estates. Another version of the tale 1 the fence line. was built in 1871 on a site north the Benedictine priory at Stainfield, of monastries by Henry VIII, and tells how the wild man was killed in of the original church. founded around 1154. This was the hanged. Information boards at the woodland by a group of farmers, 9 At the end of the field turn left and On a clear day you will be able to only nunnery of the Benedictine order ruins and at the road entrance to the known as The Hardy Gang, who were after 50m, and before the gate, turn see Lincoln cathedral on the right. in the old county of Lincolnshire. abbey have further information. fed up with him stealing their livestock. © Crown copyright database rights (2014) Ordnance Survey (100025370) right along a footpath around the edge of a garden to a road..

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