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Walked from Keyworth to Kegworth. A bit of a curate's egg (good in parts) but the road walking west of Bunny, which is busy, can easily be avoided and there are very few facilities en route (the only one I spotted outside the two endpoints was a shop on St Marys Crescent in East Leake), though there are pubs less than half a mile off the route in Bunny, East Leake and West Leake.

Leaving the Keyworth meeting point, we cross the road and follow Church Drive past the school to the path left that leads past the park and the village hall to Elm Avenue. We turn right onto Selby Lane and cross the square under the church and take the road to the left of the Co-Op which leads to a surfaced path. We turn left off this onto Wright's Orchard then right onto another surfaced path that leads us to the edge of the village. The way forward follows the right edge of a large grazing field - beware - the far end of this field gets very muddy when wet (see photo 2!)

The path goes through a narrow space between a fence and a hedge past the sewage works, then goes straight on across the field (the less direct line followed by the right of way is no longer possible on the ground). The path continues along another field edge to Wysall Road, where we turn left, following a few twists and turns then turning right into the narrow but quiet Fairham Brook Lane, which leads us into Bunny. We cross the A60 and bear right onto Gotham Lane. Beyond the trading area the pavement stops, but there is a grass verge - this road has a lot of lorry traffic so the verge may be needed at times. This road section could be avoided by turning right into Bunny and following the field path along Fairham Brook.

Eventually we turn left onto Lantern Lane, which can also be quite muddy in places, and we follow it right past the new housing development in East Leake. We turn right into St Marys Crescent, following it to the roundabout on Gotham Road where we turn right again. Just beyond the railway bridge we go straight on up the golf course drive up the hill where the main road goes right. Beyond the golf course the surface is rough gravel. At the top of the first rise we follow Stocking Lane left across the hill, and take the right fork where it splits - at this point our path is no longer surfaced. This track leads us down to West Leake, where we follow Main Street and take the track straight on where the road goes sharp right. This path is one of the best parts of this walk. At Scotland Farm we go right to join the farm road down to Kingston Brook, where we follow the right hand bank over a couple of stiles and then cross a footbridge to the left bank, which we follow into Kingston (the path skirts the edge of the final field rather than using the shortcut shown by the right of way on the map).

At Kingston we cross the road and take the unsurfaced field path, which has stiles and a few steps, crossing under the Midland Main Line railway through a little tunnel and going straight on across the fields to reach Kingston Lane just before the canal and Soar bridges. We cross these and take the path left that leads to Mill Lane. The detour left onto Lovers Walk seems a little pointless, as this path offers little of interest, but it does at least point us towards the main square in Kegworth and the meeting point.

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