About the route Easy. Level walking using field paths, lanes and the river flood bank. It can get muddy and wet in places. Trent Vale Walk Route Walk Checklist A150 Torksey Circular Start point/parking A631 Kettlethorpe Church. Please park responsibly A631 in Torksey. Distance Approximately 11.5 miles (18.5 kms). Duration A156 3.5 - 4 hours + stops. A57 Refreshments White Swan Public House & Torksey Visitor Centre. A1 Public Transport Roadcar service 106 runs between Lincoln and A46 Gainsborough and stops at Torksey. For further information call the Traveline on 08706 082 608 or visit: www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/busrailtravel OS Grid Reference A17 Walk starts at SK847758. A1 The dots show the start points of all our 20 walk routes. Visit our website for more info. Kettlethorpe Church. Start Point: Kettlethorpe Church, Kettlethorpe Route Length: Approximately 11.5 miles (18.5 kms) For more information, visit: Supported and funded by Route Duration: 3.5 - 4 hours + stops Nottingham County Council through www.trentvale.co.uk the Local Improvement Scheme. Route Type: Flat, canal and riverside paths - gentle easy walking Torksey Circular Walk Torksey Visitor Centre Torksey Find out more about the history Torksey Castle isn’t actually a 1 Start: From the church walk through the of Torksey Lock and the area’s castle at all. It was built in 1560 5 Torksey gate into the grounds of Kettlethorpe Hall. Lock beautiful waterways, and enjoy as a manor house and came Immediately to the right (west) is a stile. a well-deserved cup of tea or into the possession of the Jermyn 4 6 Climb this and head straight across the field coffee and perhaps a homemade family in the middle of the 16th Century. still heading west. Another stile will take you cake! Opening times: Sir Thomas Jermyn, a Royalist, was the through the hedge and over the metalled Fenton owner in 1642 when the Civil War Winter: Tuesday to Sunday, track. Take the footpath on the right-hand A1133 began and the ‘castle’ was bombarded A156 11am to 3.30pm. side of the ditch, maintaining your westerly by Commonwealth troops. It remains heading. Go over the footbridge crossing the 3 Summer: Tuesday to Sunday, a ruin to this day. Marsh Lane Kettlethorpe Sewer Drain – and the Sallie Bank. 2 11am to 5pm, or early evening Laughterton 1 depending on weather. 2 The path then swings right, round to the Sallie Bank north-west, up towards a small cottage. Start Turn left at the cottage and walk down on A Sustrans cycle path Rough follows part of this route, the vehicular track. The track bears round Wood 7 for more information, to the right and turns into a metalled road, Newton on A57 heading due north towards the power Trent Lane Nook Drinsey visit: www.sustrans.org.uk Spring station. The road is called Sallie Bank Lane Roadwood Lane Wood Farm and passes through a small housing estate. Torksey Castle You are now in the village of Laughterton. 2000ft 8 Turn left along the main road (A1133) and Follow the flood bank path right round to 1km you can see the metalled road you are now Torksey. The gates along the path here Thorney going to take leading off to the right. This are called ‘clapper gates’, double gates road was originally known as Mill Lane, but hinged in such a way so that one side is After 100 metres turn left over a these days is called Marsh Lane. The road always closed. Do not let them go when 6 Continue along the elevated path name sign, to avoid confusion no doubt, you are halfway through! footbridge to follow a waymarked path to and enjoy the views. Cross a stile by a bar emerge onto Roadwood Lane at Thorney. has both names. Marsh Lane has a gravel gate to join the main road (A156). Walk surface as it nears the river with a Scout 4 As you approach Torksey you will pass along this in a south-easterly direction, 8 End: Turn right (north-west) and Association camping ground to the right and a modern, square building, which is a passing the junction with the A57 and take follow the lane until you reach the A57. the East Midlands Sun Club for Naturists to pumping station. The path turns to the the next turning on the right, Drinsey Nook Cross the road heading north and take the the left. right where the Fossdyke Navigation runs Lane. The building on the corner, was once track called Westmoor Lane. Pass rough into the Trent and you can see Torksey 3 Marsh Lane comes out onto the flood called the Buffalo Inn. woodland on your left. Continue along the Lock ahead. Approach the lock and come bank of the River Trent, turn right here straight track until you reach open ground out onto the A156. Should you be in need 7 Walk down Drinsey Nook Lane for (north) and head for the power station. where you will see Kettlethorpe Church to of refreshment here, turn right down the about 200 metres past the farm sheds, Follow the flood bank path northwards, past your right. A156 and about 100 metres along on where you will see a finger indicating the the square tower of Church Laneham church the right you will see the White Swan footpath to the right (west). Go straight on the westerly bank of the river. As you go public house. across the field, keeping the hedge and the round the U-bend in the river, you will see ditch on your right. Still walking west, at Torksey Castle. 5 Walk across the road with Torksey the end of the field turn left (south) to the Lock on your left and through the car bottom of this field, turn right (west) again park, which has public toilets to the right, and then left (south), keeping Springwood to follow the towpath on the southerly Farm on your right. Walk down to the farm bank of the Fossdyke Navigation entrance. Turn right (west) here through the alongside Torksey Marina. Here you will farmyard and cross the front of Springwood find the Wheelhouse Restaurant. Farm keeping the farmhouse on your left. Kettlethorpe Church.