Sorry

This site requires JavaScript. Maps are only available if JavaScript is enabled on your browser. Please check your browser settings.

Leominster — Ludlow

Leolud one

Slow Way not verified yet. Verify Leolud here.

By a Slow Ways Volunteer on 07 Apr 2021

U U

Distance

21km/13mi

Ascent

220m

Descent

251m

Download this route

Are you sure you want to download this route?

Using a GPX file for the first time?

No, back to route

Give a hike

Pledge to walk this route and help firm up its place in the network - every walk helps.

So far it has been reviewed by two people and surveyed by zero people and there is one issue flagged with this route.

Two people have pledged to review this route.

Your pledged routes will show up in your pledges Waylist.

Every review and survey pledged and then walked will help make the Slow Ways network better, thank you for your help!

Back to route

Save to Waylist

More options

Suggest a better route

Report a problem

Description

This is a Slow Ways route connecting Leominster and Ludlow.

Know of a better route? Share it here.

Status

This route has been reviewed by 2 people.

This route has been flagged (1 times) for reasons relating to access.

Photos for Leolud one

Photos of this route will appear when they are added to a review. You can review this route here.

Information

Not verified

Route status - Live

Reviews - 2

Average rating -

Is this route good enough? - Yes (1) No (1)

Problems reported - Access (1)

Downloads - 15

Surveys

We are working to build-up a picture of what routes look like. To do that we are asking volunteers to survey routes so that we can communicate features, obstacles and challenges that may make a route desirable or not.

Slow Ways surveyors are asked to complete some basic online training, but they are not vetted. If you are dependent on the survey information being correct in order to complete a route, we recommend that you think critically about the information provided. You may also wish to wait until more than one survey has been completed.

Help people know more about this route by volunteering to submit a survey.

Complete the survey training.
Submit a survey for this route.

Geography information system (GIS) data

Total length

Maximum elevation

Minimum elevation

Start and end points

Leominster
Grid Ref	SO4969059026
Lat / Lon	52.22714^° / -2.73798^°
Easting / Northing	349,690E / 259,026N
What3Words	relishing.sports.truth

Ludlow
Grid Ref	SO5098374600
Lat / Lon	52.36726^° / -2.72132^°
Easting / Northing	350,983E / 274,600N
What3Words	struts.lamps.whirlpool

Leolud One's land is

Arable	46.6%
Pasture	40.6%
Urban	12.8%

Data: Corine Land Cover (CLC) 2018

reviews

Nichowes

10 Feb 2024 Winter

Report

Looking at the .gpx exported into OS maps, I am surprised that Jo found the route passable throughout. By my reckoning, the plotting is inaccurate in many places and extremely so in Orleton (swerves through gardens off any PROW), Eye (short cuts across private land at The Field and then by Eye Manor), Luston (follows a track that is not a PROW from the village to Little Bury) and at The Broad (follows bank of stream across private land at Mile End, avoiding nearby Herefordshire Trail).

I have created a more accurate .gpx, uploaded it as Leolud two, trialled and reviewed it.

Share your thoughts

Please Sign up or log in to comment.

Jo Jaunts

19 Aug 2023 Summer

Report

Decent route. Its fairly easy to find as long as you have a map. The waymarking is intermittant so it would be easy to get lost without some form of map or checking where you are.
There are lots of really lovely sections, little villages, beautiful houses and some fabulous views.
There are also lots of stiles, some in wobbly condition. There was 2 gates tied shut that had to be climbed over.
Lots of the route is on the Herefordshire Trail, despite this there was also lots of very overgrown areas and sections with crops making it hard to find or traverse the footpaths.
However there are also really clear and well marked sections, so overall a very nice walk, great way to get from Ludlow to Leominster if you have the time.

Nichowes
08 Jan 2024

Report

Looking at the .gpx exported into OS maps, I am surprised that Jo found the route passable throughout. By my reckoning, the plotting is inaccurate in many places and extremely so in Orleton (swerves through gardens off any PROW), Eye (short cuts across private land at The Field and then by Eye Manor), Luston (follows a track that is not a PROW from the village to Little Bury) and at The Broad (follows bank of stream across private land at Mile End, avoiding nearby Herefordshire Trail). If anyone follows and reviews Leolud, I think there is a need to create a more accurate .gpx that will have to be uploaded as Leolud two.

I was thinking of following this route on 9.1.2024 but I anticipate that mud and floods are likely to make some sections exceptionally difficult, wet and dirty to traverse, even by Herefordshire standards, despite freezing temperatures forecast for the night before.
Nichowes
10 Jan 2024

Report

Hoping for drier, harder ground tomorrow (11.1.2024) to trial revised .gpx (Leolud two) section from Leominster to Orleton. This should cover all of the inaccuracies mentioned above.
Share your thoughts

Please Sign up or log in to comment.

Share your views about this route, give it a star rating, indicate whether it should be verified or not.

Include information that will be useful to others considering to walk or wheel it.

You can add up to 15 photos.

Overall ratings

2 reviews

0 reviews

1 reviews