A good Leicestershire country walk, two country parks and a bit of canal. A direct field walk is available from Sutton Cheney to Harper’s Hill but that would miss the option for a cafe stop half way. A short pavement walk takes us to the popular Country Park. The road walk along Ambion Lane has a pavement which ends where we take the bridleway. The path to Sutton Wharf is well walked and before flood damage, seen on my earlier visit, it had offered a good surface....

Ken

Passing the site of the Battle of Bosworth Field (including visitor centre) gives the route a certain X factor....

David Sanderson

A sound and fairly direct route, but not quite 5* because the field path north of Hinckley is little used and some of its stiles are a little awkward. We pass the cafe at Sutton Wharf (I think the canalside path is preferable to the access road behind the cafe), and follow the path through a wood to reach the Bosworth battlefield visitor centre, where we turn right and follow field edges out to Ambion Lane, which has a pavement, as do the roads through Sutton Cheney....

Hugh Hudson

Mostly good, but I am going to create a new version to fix the two issues Ken mentioned (the incorrect plot on the edge of Hinckley and passing through Sutton Verney rather than skirting it). I will post a detailed review with pictures on the new route....

Hugh Hudson

From the meeting point in Hinckley we head north up Regent Street, then right onto Stockwell Head, which we remain on after the main road turns left, heading up quite a steep hill, then straight on on Wood Street, then taking an alleyway left (Church Walk) back to the main road. We turn right and then more or less straight on to the edge of Hinckley, taking a tarmac path between fences where Bradgate Road heads off to the left....

Hugh Hudson

A good Leicestershire country walk, two country parks and a bit of canal. A direct field walk is available from Sutton Cheney to Harper’s Hill but that would miss the option for a cafe stop half way. A short pavement walk takes us to the popular Country Park. The road walk along Ambion Lane has a pavement which ends where we take the bridleway. The path to Sutton Wharf is well walked and before flood damage, seen on my visit, it had offered a good surface. Crossing the bridge the path remains signed for ‘The Round’ a walk devised by members of the Leicestershire Footpath Association to mark their centenary back in 1987....

Ken

Seats and picnic bench in the park, a pub and just off route a Co-op. The field paths from the motorway to Sapcote were fine and a stroll through the park with seats and a picnic table offer a break if required. There is a good permissive path around the farm which is misleadingly officially waymarked....

Ken

I agree with David that the section along the A4254 should make it clear that we walk on the south side, because the pavement on the north side goes missing in a place where crossing is awkward. Nutts Lane only has a pavement on the west side, but the traffic lights at the canal bridge make it easy to cross there, and we head east along the Ashby canal around a big bend and under the A5, where there is a pub on the far side of the canal. We follow the path around the edge of a housing estate to emerge on Crowhill Road, which we cross and head right along the pavement....

Hugh Hudson

We follow the path across a couple of fields and along field edges (plenty of gates) to the stream below Sutton Lodge, where we turn right and follow the field path out to the Fosse Way. Here we go right a short distance then turn left into what is now a lay-by (with a burger van when I passed), then cross the main road and walk a short distance along the verge to find the signposted path than leads between hedges and across fields to the edge of Sapcote. We follow the pavements and a couple of alleyways past the church, then take the surfaced path along the edge of a park. A gate allows us through to Smithy Lane, where we pass a large mobile home site before returning to the pavement of Hinckley Road until the edge of the wood, where we turn right up another Smithy Lane....

Hugh Hudson

You're inexplicably required to leave the road you're on (through a building!) and then follow an alleyway back on to the road you started on....

David Sanderson

A well marked combination of paths across a golf course, through a wood and then across a common deliver you to a very straight combination of paths and roads to the centre of Earl Shilton....

David Sanderson

My only complaint with the route, the section that prevents it from being 5 star was the section in Attleborough crossing the A4254. Also the plotting follows the road over the railway, rather than the pedestrian footbridge but it is obviously wrong and the footbridge is the clear option to take, so it wouldn't make the route a failure....

David Sanderson

Surface is a mixture of grassed over footpath, narrow footpath and wider areas of earth/stone footpath. The route went through a large rape planted field which became quite challenging the further one went. The footpath took a small detour around electrified fencing separating areas for horses/ponies. After the previous experience the footpath was avoided by traversing the perimeter of the field....

edsimmonds

The route starts in Nuneaton town centre and leads out of the town towards Attleborough, this section mainly follows a roads....

Dan Phelan

I started this SlowWays path in Hinckley town centre, where there are plenty of shops, cafes and amenities....

Dan Phelan

I knew most of the route, and was impressed with most of the suggested route - maybe my local knowledge could suggest some very minor alterations, but I was generally very happy with it. I used Komoot to download the route, and most of my photos can be seen there - https://www.komoot.com/tour/360197571?ref=wtd...

Nick Grain

The route begins in the town centre, passes through a few residential streets before taking a jitty down the side of a school college and out onto Hinckley golf course....

wrkjlr

If it's hot, you can walk through the woods; the lane will take you down to the car park where there is a great cafe; or cross the open meadows....

Andrew Wells

I would suggest taking the footpath from Sutton Cheney, south, and then rejoining the route along the much quieter Dadlington to Stapleton road - I will endeavour to check this route in the near future before finalising the proposed new route....

Nick Grain