East 06 Barnetby le Wold, Ramblers Lincolnshire Routes DISTANCE 12.5KM/7¾ MILES ASCENT 116M/381FT TIME 3 HOURS TYPE VILLAGE AND COUNTRY To download this route NAVIGATION FITNESS PERFECT NUMBER and hundreds of others, visit LEVEL LEVEL FOR OF STILES ramblers.org.uk/routes EASY LEISURELY VIEWS 2 This circular walk o ers fi ne START views of the surrounding & FINISH countryside, including the 1 BARNETBY nearby Lincolnshire Wolds 6 LE WOLD AONB. The route takes in part of the Viking Way and 2 visits two local churches, 5 before reaching higher Plan your walk ground, where you may WHERE Circular walk from spot bounding hares Barnetby le Wold, following part of the Viking Way. ROUTE BY LENLEN BANISTER BANISTER START/END Barnetby le Wold START Exit Barnetby le Wold railway station (TA054100). 1 3 station and turn R, then R TERRAIN Field-edge paths, good tracks and quiet lanes. again at T-junction. Follow road through village and turn R again MAPS OS Explorer 281; along St Mary’s Avenue. Keep R at 4 Landranger 112. fi rst junction along track. Continue GETTING THERE Regular train straight ahead over cross-track to services to Barnetby le Wold reach Marsh Lane. from She eld, Cleethorpes, to gate and cross-fi eld path. Cross turn sharp L, then go R along hedge to Grimsby and Manchester. If Turn L at lane, then as lane gated bridge to Somerby memorial reach a lane. Looking north-east into travelling by car, you can park in 2 swings L, go R on track. When on Bigby Hill. This striking the distance, you may spot the towers Railway Street or along Kings track swings L, keep forward. A monument (pictured above) was of oil refi neries on the Humber. Road, where there are public toilets at the start of the walk. dog leg at a fi eld end takes you across erected in 1770 to mark 29 years of a bridge, and a second bridge marks marriage between Edward and Ann Keep forward at Mealand Hill, 5 EATING & DRINKING The the next boundary. At cross-track, Weston of Somerby Hall. It is made across junction. At corner, Whistle & Flute pub is across turn L, soon leaving it on your R, of ashlar and designed in Greek go L at fi ngerpost towards sail-less the road from the station crossing over two bridges along L style, with an urn on top of a slender windmill. Cross small fi eld via (01652 6882387, fi eld edge. The path then swings Doric column. Reach lane and pass stiles to reach road. whistleandfl ute.net). L to drive at Low Farm. St Margaret’s church, which dates SLEEPING Very reasonable from the 13th century. Look for two Cross road, turn L and soon go B&B at the Whistle & Flute, 6 Go R, following road L to reach marble urns in the chancel niches, R at fi ngerpost on cross-fi eld as above. 3 an information board at the dedicated to two sons of the Weston path. You can now see the village of VISITOR INFORMATION main road. You’re now in Bigby – family who died in the service of the Barnetby le Wold before you. After Lincoln Tourist Information, one of four ‘Thankful Villages’ in East India Company in the 1760s. gate, walk with fence R, swinging L 9 Castle Hill (visitlincoln.com/ Lincolnshire, so-called because not Follow lane uphill to main road. past pond at bottom. A drive takes things-to-do/visitor- a single soldier from the village was you to the road. Cross, keeping information-centre). killed in the First World War. Divert L Cross road and follow lane forward. At cross-tracks, go R. Swing 4 GUIDEBOOK Pathfi nder Guides: for 150m to visit the 12th-century All signed to ‘Somerby Top Potato L on drive to road. Go L to return to the Lincolnshire and the Wolds Saints church, with its squat tower. Store’, with extensive views R. After station, where you began your walk. – Walks (£11.99, Crimson, Its most interesting e gy is of Sir passing store, the lane becomes a ISBN 978 0711749863). Robert Tyrwhitt, who died in 1581. rough track – when this swings R, Create your own route LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUP Look for the carving of a woodwose keep forward on wide, grassy ride. Register an account at Gainsborough – a wildman – at his feet. Return, Keep forward across fi eld corner ramblers.org.uk/createroutes (ramblers.org.uk/gainsborough). PHOTO: GARY BROTHWELL. MAP: CROWN COPYRIGHT 2017 ORDNANCE SURVEY. MEDIA LICENCE 047/17. CREATED WITH MEMORY-MAP CREATED MEDIA LICENCE 047/17. ORDNANCE SURVEY. 2017 COPYRIGHT MAP: CROWN BROTHWELL. GARY PHOTO: keeping along road. Cross main road through gap in hedge. Immediately, Step out and take part in the Festival of Winter Walks ramblers.org.uk/winterfestival Walk57_53_RR06_East_R/H_final.indd 53 10/11/2017 16:59.