Market Bosworth — Desford
Markdes one
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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Market Bosworth and Desford.
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Reviews - 2
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Market Bosworth
Grid Ref
SK4059803072
Lat / Lon
52.62392° / -1.40169°
Easting / Northing
440,598E / 303,072N
What3Words
shuttled.inclines.otter
Desford
Grid Ref
SK4781103357
Lat / Lon
52.62589° / -1.29511°
Easting / Northing
447,811E / 303,357N
What3Words
painting.freshest.lowest
Markdes One's land is
Market Bosworth | |
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Grid Ref | SK4059803072 |
Lat / Lon | 52.62392° / -1.40169° |
Easting / Northing | 440,598E / 303,072N |
What3Words | shuttled.inclines.otter |
Desford | |
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Grid Ref | SK4781103357 |
Lat / Lon | 52.62589° / -1.29511° |
Easting / Northing | 447,811E / 303,357N |
What3Words | painting.freshest.lowest |
Arable | 41.5% |
Pasture | 21.4% |
Urban | 37.2% |
Data: Corine Land Cover (CLC) 2018
reviews
K
13 Aug 2023Flat route, two stiles on the Cadeby to Newbold Verdon section, crosses farmland, through woods, village streets and Market Bosworth Country Park. The route is mainly easy to follow on the ground. An exception is east of the A447, where my old OS Explorer paper map was out of date with the footpath having been moved. Online maps and the Slow Ways route are more accurate.
You can walk it in one direction and catch the 153 bus back to your starting point. Toilets in Market Bosworth Country Park, pubs and food shops in Market Bosworth, Newbold Verdon and Desford.
Ken
12 Feb 2023This is Leicestershire so I expect and get quality. A mix of headland and cross field paths over cropped fields. There was also some grass, so at times there could be cattle. Gates all the way, well almost, one annoying stile which looked new and of poor quality. Otherwise an excellent walk with good services half way.
Dropping off the bus at the meeting place in Desford I struggled to understand the route out via Main Street, it did pass a Co-op on Newbold Road but little else. Countryside starts along the track to Lockey Farm Boarding Kennels, the recorded path cuts across one field but there was no sign of use or reinstatement so I stayed on the track.
Turning by the closed gates to the kennels we are still along the field headland but even after a dry January the ground was still soft here and again later in the walk there were muddy patches. It doesn't matter that the plot is a straight line because the walked path is obvious by the hedge, not across the fields as shown on the map.
Crossing a minor road the field edge is some distance so it's across the middle but again well walked, unless you are the first visitor after cultivation. This is Leicestershire so while the paint is starting to peel and fade there are still a fair number of yellow topped posted to help guide us.
Newbold Verdon has shops, an inn, a cafe and buses so it's tempting to stay put or give up but I pressed on, destination Coalville by end of day. Main Street has lost any shops that may have given it a name, it leads only to the impressive church where we turn onto the path signed for Cadeby.
This is the pasture section so livestock could be in the fields then a cropped field before a short woodland section and next that latest countryside crop, a solar farm. Recent maps show extensive quarry activity next but it's all now vanished. Our path has been officially diverted around the large hole, sorry feature lake, but stays in the field. The road is still signed 'Quarry' so there may be lorries but not on the Saturday of my walk.
Cadeby is a pretty and affluent village but has no services. The Reverend Teddy Boston once had rails around the rectory garden here. The cross field path is well marked taking us via the Rugby Football Club ground to Market Bosworth Country Park with a view of the hall now a hotel, rooms at £51 but only 3.6 stars.
We follow the one way system to reach the Market Place where seats, services and buses await a weary traveller.
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