Easkim one

Verified Slow Way

Verified by 60.00% of reviewers

Walked from Kimberley to Eastwood on a mild overcast winter morning. I walked it because for some weird reason the first 3 reviewers didn't snail it even though there is no flag visible. So my review was needed to get Kimberley up to 100% verification. This is a good direct route in dry conditions, but the descent through the fields from Kimberley was very sticky - the worst kind of wet ploughed clay. If you have the time for a longer route, EASKIM2 is more enjoyable.

Leaving Eastwood, we head down Main Street and Eastwood Road past a new housing development to the entrance of the oddly named Hall Om Wong Open Space. We cross the park diagonally (no path, so if in doubt stay lower and follow the far edge upwards to find the Robin Hood way path through an alleyway. We cross Maws Lane and go straight on along Edinboro Row, which leads out into another small park, which we cross diagonally half right, then continue down through the fields, initially still on the Robin Hood Way. The views from this path are good, but the last two fields on the descent were ploughed clay when I did them, so can be very wet and sticky, so don't wear anything that needs to be kept clean. Beyond the bridge the path continues on firmer grass and leads to Baker Road, and from there we follow streets and alleyways into the centre of Eastwood.

This is a good alternative to pounding the main road pavement, although that would also get you from A to B. I walked it from Eastwood in January. Quiet residential roads to begin with. The fields from Newthorpe were pretty muddy, so needed to clean up before entering the relative civilisation of Kimberley.

This is the remains of a review that won't delete itself.

This review Kimberley to Eastwood is another urban link with a bit of pleasant greenery in the middle. Generally easy walking one or two stiles and two well walked ploughed fields. Well plotted so no excuse for getting lost.

I amended the route slightly on departure from Kimberley taking the high road rather than the busy low road. This route passes the old Great Northern station building the Slow Way Kimarn heads off along the trackbed. Kimberley had two stations and the former Midland building is now a house behind which work on conversion of the old Kimberley Brewery is underway. More new houses will are quickly filling a local field known as nine corners. That assumes the job advert for bricklayers is successful. The path across the park is part of the Robin Hood Way (RHW) the premier Nottinghamshire long distance walk which some say was created by an inebriated outlaw as it winds its way through the county. Many Slow Ways will use part of the route.

Two windmills once stood in the upper play park, modern wind turbines need only a tall tower, not a natural hill. Houses suddenly end and the route enters fields but the edge of Giltbrook is in sight so make the best of this brief green space, which has the feel of waiting development. To the south, within sight but far enough away, a large blue building with four huge yellow letters attracts many shoppers. The RHW heads north along the Gilt Brook while our routes crosses the bridge.

No mistaking Newthorpe Baptist Chapel which in 1828 must have stood in some isolation serving a scattered farming community but is now surrounded by housing. The mix of old and new changes to all new along estate roads where well kept gardens offer interest. At Hilltop the mix returns with a pair of villas named Highlands offering a date for this bit of suburbia.

The route is relatively short but a lot of beside road walking and then when off street paths, the tracks are either mostly steep in ascent or descent.Not suitable for pushchair or wheel chair users. Good views of Eastwood, Newthorpe and beyond towards Derbyshire Peaks from the top of the hill outside Kimberley.

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