Description
This is a Slow Ways route connecting Desford and Leicester.
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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Desford and Leicester.
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Status
This route has been reviewed by 3 people.
This route has been flagged (2 times) for reasons relating to access.
This route has been flagged (1 times) for reasons relating to accuracy.
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Information
Route status - Live
Reviews - 3
Average rating -
Is this route good enough? - No (3)
Problems reported - Access (2) Accuracy (1)
Downloads - 7
Surveys
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| Grade 5: Route includes technical and arduous terrain where there may be potentially impassable barriers if the correct equipment is not used or barriers which require assistance to overcome. Potential barriers must be photographed and described. Access grade X: At least one stile, flight of steps or other obstacle that is highly likely to block access for wheelchair and scooter users. |
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Facilities
Facilities in the middle third of this route.
Challenges
Potential challenges reported on this route. Some challenges are seasonal.
Obstacles
Obstacles on this route.
Accessibility
Is this route step and stile free?
Measurements
Surveyors were asked to measure the narrowest and steepest parts of paths.
Narrowest part of path: no data
The steepest uphill gradient East: no data
The steepest uphill gradient West: no data
The steepest camber: no data
How clear is the waymarking on the route: Unclear in places (1)
Successfully completed
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Recommended by an expert
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Terrain
We asked route surveyors to estimate how much of the route goes through different kinds of terrain.
40.0% of the route is on roads (1)
30.0% of the route is lit at night (1)
30.0% of the route is paved (1)
30.0% of the route is muddy (1)
20.0% of the route is over rough ground (1)
10.0% of the route is through long grass (1)
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Geography information system (GIS) data
Total length
Maximum elevation
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Start and end points
Desford
Grid Ref
SK4781103357
Lat / Lon
52.62589° / -1.29511°
Easting / Northing
447,811E / 303,357N
What3Words
painting.freshest.lowest
Leicester
Grid Ref
SK5875604622
Lat / Lon
52.63619° / -1.13321°
Easting / Northing
458,756E / 304,622N
What3Words
newly.assure.cook
Deslei One's land is
| Desford | |
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| Grid Ref | SK4781103357 |
| Lat / Lon | 52.62589° / -1.29511° |
| Easting / Northing | 447,811E / 303,357N |
| What3Words | painting.freshest.lowest |
| Leicester | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | SK5875604622 |
| Lat / Lon | 52.63619° / -1.13321° |
| Easting / Northing | 458,756E / 304,622N |
| What3Words | newly.assure.cook |
| Arable | 35.1% |
| Urban | 64.9% |
Data: Corine Land Cover (CLC) 2018
reviews
Danravenellison
13 Nov 2022Hannah (from Slow Ways) and I thought we'd double check this route and, if it didn't work, make a new one.
We came it this from Desford, so the opposite direction to Jess who already reviewed this route.
The path was not overgrown for us and we didn't face the same challenges as Jess, but we think the route makes use of a track which is not marked as a right of way. This track connects Leicester Lane to the footpath behind (to the south of) Bosworth Community School. Someone local might know if there is permissive access on this track.
I've shared Deslei Two which addresses this issue and is similar to this route going through Leicester.
Someone local may well know of an even better Deslei route!.
Hannah
13 Nov 2022Shame about the bit of track that's not footpath or other access (the stretch is uploaded as a screen grab). We'd not have known if we'd not had the OS paid app, and it feels unlikely it'd be contested by anyone as it runs straight from a well-used footpath through turnip fields to the main road. But it's not a footpath. We could have followed the path on east to the road and doubled back, but there's no pavement on this stretch, so we designed Deslei two a little further to the south for this section, and it was a great walk. A little longer but that was no hardship as it was nice to walk!.
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JessGreen
05 Jun 2021I walked from Leicester to Desford but was unable to walk the final mile or so because the path is so overgrown and there's no clear route between fields. This route also goes past a slaughter house which is pretty unpleasant.
There are some very secluded paths on this route that I wasn't comfortable walking on my own.
But also some beautiful open fields and views over Leicestershire.
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