The Walks Map & Walks The Walks The Walks The Walks VILLAGE WALK Turn left where the path meets For the longer walk continue 500 ACRES WALK VILLAGE WALK SHORT CHURCH END WALK St. Mary’s church can be more closely inspected In the distance over to the left you can see the Jubilee Road and then continue to (400m) Follow School Lane to its junction straight on beyond the Brickyard From the Village Hall walk into the the crossroads. SHORT CHURCH WALK if you carry on about 110 m. It was mainly built From the Village Hall walk away Forest which was set in the Warren shortly on Millfield Road. Follow the directions for the in the 1200s. The font is very interesting for its with Keeling Street. after the East Coast Floods in 1953. The village past the War Memorial and 1 500 ACRES WALK Village walk to the Fire Station. Scale /4 N illustrations of Christ rising from the tomb and from the village centre past the turn right along Brown’s Lane. Warren was developed to provide sand and Turn Left into Keeling Street mile CHURCH WALK the symbols of his crucifixion. Oasis fishing lakes and primary Turn left to return to the Village gravel early last century and the ponds that At the T-Junction with South Road passing the Axe & Cleaver pub on MILL FIELD WALK From the church yard looking south-west you school. Hall. remain are used for both private and public turn right and continue beyond Turn right and where the road At the end turn left in front of your right and The Birkbeck School can see the graceful spire of St Peter’s at South fishing. Swancroft Farm on the left until turns left into Cemetery Road Humberstone Villas and follow the Start and Parking Somercotes (redundant since 1988). Almost Just after the school and opposite continue straight on along a (opened 1964) on your left. P due South the church of St Botolph, Skidbrooke MILL FIELD WALK the next junction. path around to the right to the (also redundant) lies in isolation in the fields. St Anne’s Avenue turn right along footpath signed Ark Road. junction with Willerton Road. North Somercotes village is across the fields to the public footpath signed to From the Village Hall walk away As you follow the bridleway you will pass Turn right onto the track, North the north and probably relocated there 300 School Lane. from the village centre and take hummocky fields - the remains of early salterns Green Lane. Follow this to a Follow the unmade road past the On the right, opposite years or so after the village was recorded in the Turn left and follow this road to a developed around Mare haven which became houses on the left to the end Churchill Road is the Domesday book. Cross School Lane and take the the first turning on the right, junction with a road. Rejoin the T-junction and go straight across Wesleyan Chapel and behind path opposite signed to Church School Lane. silted up around 1200. To the distant left you directions at A . where the path turns slightly left following the path between the Fire this the Manse, rebuilt in 1871. may see something of the back of ‘Locksley and passes between two hedges. End. Hall’ popularly associated with the Locksley Station and the houses on the left. Continue north across the three 1 After approximately 400m ( /4 mile) Hall of Tennyson’s poem. For the shorter walk turn right Continue on Keeling Street to return bridges and fields to the village. At the road turn right and follow it as the road bends to the right, onto the path to North Where the double hedge ends, The path bears right, and then to the Village Hall. Arriving at the main road after turn right across a field before P as it bends left. carry straight on along a lane After about 600m you enter the Somercotes. Walk straight across crosses a field to the turning head passing the public toilets, turn right crossing ‘Cradle Bridge’ where the signed as a bridleway to South parish of South Somercotes. After two fields to a bridge. Cross the in Evison Way. Continue in a CHURCH WALK onto Keeling Street and continue path turns half right between two Continue towards the church and Somercotes, known as Millfield following the track as it bends bridge and turn left and follow straight line, ignoring the road to to the Village Hall. pass the farm on the right. Turn Road. the field edge to another bridge. fields. To the left you will see the right, and then follow the path From the Village Hall walk towards right and walking slightly up-hill part of the old RAF Donna Nook left along the green lane next to for about 150 m you will see the Continue straight ahead along the as it turns sharp right along a dyke the village centre and at the War the bungalow and continue to a field edge to emerge next to a buildings. bank. Memorial cross the road and take the path signed right to take you back The path will shortly turn left and junction of tracks and paths known into North Somercotes. Ahead you bungalow onto a track. Cross over a bridge and proceed path opposite signed to Church End. as Threeways. you will pass through the old across the field to pass behind the Follow the way-marked path straight will see the Brickyard - active last camp area, to Ark Road. century - which now has a few Turn right and follow the track to village cemetery. on through several fields, over a Turn left onto the bridleway. a junction with a road. bridge, emerging onto the road at caravans and fishing ponds. (if you would like to extend this Church End. A At the road carry straight on walk see longer option below) The cemetery was opened in 1880 with its two Continue along the bridleway until Chapels - now Grade II listed buildings. it joins the road. and follow the lane as it bends Originally one was for the Methodists and the Turn right. Continue towards the left and becomes School Lane. Turn left and follow this road to a other for the Church of England. Church past the farm on the right Carry straight on and follow the T- junction. and then turn right along the road as it bends left and becomes At the end of School Lane turn At the T-junction turn left and footpath about mid-point along the School Lane. left to return to the Village Hall. continue to the junction of this next field. road with Bank End and Cemetery Road. “Map drawn from aerial photography copyright Lincolnshire County Council and Getmapping PLC. Lincolnshire County Council reproduced from OS mapping with permission of the controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (C) Crown Copyright and Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to civil proceedings. OS Licence I00025370”.