Places of interest to visit nearby Go Stepping Out! Walk Facts B 1 3 Introduction 9 Refreshments 8 The 4000 acres of the parish of Walk Location B 1 Scopwick and Kirkby Green lie on 2 Two circular routes around the 4 1 A1 Royal Oak 500 Stepping Out the eastern edge of the old Lincoln villages of Scopwick and Kirkby High Street, Scopwick Heath, roughly half way between Green. Lincoln LN4 3QT Sleaford and Lincoln. The villages, 58 A1 B 1 1 2 Telephone: 01526 320285 9 0 separated by just over a mile, lie 0 1 2 1 Starting Points 17 B B beside an old drove road which now W1 11 Scopwick Stepping Out Car 90 3 3 1 6 B 1 90 1190 4 2 11 A 0 B forms part of the B1191 running east Park (Grid Ref: TF 070 582) The Penny Farthing Inn A 3 2 4 B1 43 Scopwick and 1 A W2 4 Station Road, Timberland 5 from the A15 to the old ferry at Kirkby Green Stepping Out 8 17 Lincoln LN4 3SA B1 11 Kirkstead Bridge. West of the A15, B Car Park (Grid Ref TF 0847 1 1 13 A 8 Haddington 1 8 Telephone: 01526 378359 B1178 5 the road loses its designation, 5796 ) 2 2 B 120 11 B B 12 9 2 14 1 202 1 B1 8 91 becoming Temple Road. It once 9 B11 Many of the paths have been 1 connected the wool trading centre at B 119 Accommodation 1 B Parking 151 Kirkby Green 4 8 1 8 provided by the goodwill of local 9 7 1 Kirkstead Abbey directly to Welbourn 0 1 As above 6 9 B landowners. These are marked by A Manor Cottage 10 on Lincoln Cliff, traversing the Highways Act signs. No special 8 The Manor, Timberland isolated heath and linking its Templar Public Transport permission is needed to use these A 53 1 A1 Lincoln LN4 3RZ B1429 5 granges with medieval Boston, a 7 For information call the Traveline 0 6 paths, but walkers are asked to help B A 1 Telephone: 01526 378388 3 9 thriving Hanseatic port, second only A on 0871 200 22 33 or visit 5 to ensure a continued welcome by 1 7 6 East to London. www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/busrailtravel only using the waymarked paths Heckington Daisy Cottage B & B and keeping dogs on a lead. Where A17 Scopwick means ‘sheep farm’ in Old A153 29 Heath Road, Scopwick paths cross pasture young stock English ('scæp-wic') and Kirkby Walk Length Lincoln LN4 3NU may be present. If you have a dog 16 Green (‘village with a church’) has W1 2.3 miles (3.7km) 3 0 4 Telephone: 01526 321716 6 with you please make sure it is B North Kesteven District Council Heart of Lincolnshire the ‘by’ suffix denoting Viking origin W2 1.9 miles (3km) A 1 under firm control in these 5 (the Anglo-Saxon word ‘Dene’ refers At a leisurely pace, both A52 A52 Watermill Farm Cottages sensitive areas. W1 Distance 2.3 miles/3.7km W2 Distance 1.9 miles/3km to any Scandinavian invader, not just walks will each take about 7 The Mills, Kirkby Green A60 the Danes). These names show that an hour Lincoln LN4 3PE just over 1000 years ago, ‘Dane’ and Telephone: 01526 320329 Whilst great care has been taken in compiling ‘Saxon’ lived closely under the Type of Walk this information into this leaflet, North Kesteven Danelaw. Kesteven (and probably District Council cannot be held responsible for The walks are generally on Clifton House any errors, omissions or alterations contained For more Stepping Out walks, further information on local attractions or Rutland) formed the greater part of good farm tracks and pathways. Church Lane, Timberland within it. The inclusion of an establishment within accommodation, please call or visit: the Danelaw borough of Stamford Some of the tracks can be very Lincoln LN4 3SB this leaflet does not imply any official Sleaford Tourist Information Centre, Money’s Yard, Carre Street, bounded by the Welland, Witham recommendations by North Kesteven muddy in wet weather. Telephone: 01526 378810 District Council. Sleaford, Lincs NG34 7TW Telephone: 01529 414294 and Car Dyke. Email: [email protected] www.heart of lincs.com Ordnance Survey maps Download all the Stepping Out walks by visiting www.countrysidenk.co.uk Explorer 272 and Landranger 121 www.countryaccess.gov.uk www.visitlincolnshire.com Walk 8 www.spiresandsteeples.com 0 0 2 T R 5 9 15 4 6 S C E www.countrysidenk.co.uk Reproduced from OS Mapping with the permission of the controller of HMSO c Crown Copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes crown W1 LL copyright and may lead to civil proceedings. OS Licence 100017926.2008 W2 Scopwick Walk North Kirkby Green Walk 11. From the Stepping Out car park 11. From the Stepping Out car park 6 With the hedge on your right, look for the way marker and The Royal Oak (c 1700) is an old in Vicarage Lane, continue along follow this through the gate and follow it right, along the grassy post inn on the drove road to the lane keeping the hedgerow retrace your steps to your car. path with the hedgerow to your Sleaford and London. Its name is bordering the Recreation Ground right. This path skirts around the first recorded 150 years ago but may date back even further, on your left. Follow this hedge as All fields have names, though many field edge to a wooden bridge. it turns left until you reach a 2. Cross over the bridge and turn perhaps celebrating The Restoration are in danger of being forgotten or Stepping 2 small wooden gate leading to immediately left and continue of 1660 and the legendary escape replaced by the numbers demanded Out leaflet of the future Charles II after defeat pasture beyond. T around a small copse of trees. o number 14 by agricultural census returns. They at the battle of Worcester in 1651. 2 Turn right just before the gate Anglo-Canadian pilot John L The path bends right and then can be many hundreds of years old i n and follow the green lane known and describe topography, the soil, Magee is buried in Scopwick c 4 quickly left through a gap in the o l as Trundle Lane. Continue on, wildlife, vegetation or the name of a Commonwealth War Graves n 5 hedge. After a short distance the The Sleaford to Lincoln railway runs between ancient hedgerows and previous owner. Field names unique cemetery. His poem High path emerges onto Acre lane. in a loop east of Kirkby Green ter look out for the carved wooden to each location are recorded on Flight is regularly quoted and Wa 33. Turn right onto Acre Lane and because the then Squire of ower sculpture known as The Seated title deeds, tithe maps and farm was famously quoted by US Scopwick T 3 follow this for a short distance Blankney and last of the Chaplins, Lady to your right. maps. Thankfully, many in Scopwick President Regan in his 6 Lane until you see a track leading off the dissolute and debt-ridden Henry, undle 4 Follow Trundle Lane until you and Kirby Green have been tribute to the crew of the Tr A to your left. insisted that the line run sufficiently reach a T junction with the farm Challenger space shuttle. 2 4. Turn left onto this field edge path recorded as part of the Village Trail. 2 4 far from Blankney Hall so as not to road known as Acre Lane. They include: Barley Furze, Cow Magee was educated at 3 keeping the large hedgerow to disturb his brood mares. In the 4. Turn left onto Acre Lane and Rugby School where he won 1 Scopwick your left. Off to your right you 3 Close, Bonnet’s Close and Ten in original joint GNR/GER proposal of follow it for just under a mile until the coveted poetry prize and art can see the large water tower on Acres. The term ‘acre’ used locally o M 1882, the line ran across fields to a way marker leads you left onto was killed in a flying accident T Trundle Lane. Ahead you will see expressed the amount of land a 1191 the west of Acre Lane. a farm track. while stationed at RAF B the village of Scopwick. Follow team of oxen could plough in a day, 5 1 4 Turn left onto the farm track and rather than any formal unit of Wellingore in December this path until you emerge onto Kirkby Green The Danelaw existed as a political follow this as it winds its way measure. 1941, aged just 19. the B1191. force from the middle of the 9th through the farmland to reach a B 55. Turn left and follow this road 1 1 Century, though Viking raiders had T junction of footpaths with a 8 back towards Kirkby Green. Take 8 probably been settling in metal gate on your right. A large water tower is present on great care rounding the bend T Lincolnshire for far longer. The ‘five 5 Turn left and follow this path until Trundle Lane on the Scopwick o and follow the road back to S boroughs’ which comprised the you see a sharp right bend. At l your car. Walk. The tank was converted from e a Danelaw south of the Humber were: this point carry straight on along f a ship’s boiler to supply water to o A: The Seated Lady at r Stamford, Lincoln, Leicester, a grassy path leading towards d nearby Lowfield Farm.