Day 7 (29 July) - Nottingham To Leicester

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
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    Distance: 41.69 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 12h 35 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: No
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 225 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 147 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 105 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 21 m
  • ⚐
    District: Rushcliffe 
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    Start: N 52.938244° / W 1.135967°
  • ⚑
    End: N 52.619934° / W 1.229624°
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Description

Start the plot by indicating the starting point. If you know the exact car parking situation, please explain how to park.
If we can access the starting point with public transports, please explain the lines to use and share any useful informations.

(S) From here, describe the instructions to follow from the starting point.

Add waypoints by clicking on the map.

The plot has to end by the location where the walk finishes. If it is a loop please write (S/E) at the end of the description. If it is a one way route write (E).

Waypoints

  1. S : km 0 - alt. 21 m - Start on Trent Bridge, A60
  2. 2 : km 0.06 - alt. 25 m - Keep right onto Loughborough Road, A60
  3. 3 : km 0.16 - alt. 24 m - Keep right onto Loughborough Road, A60
  4. 4 : km 1.59 - alt. 24 m - Keep right onto Loughborough Road, A60
  5. 5 : km 2.72 - alt. 47 m - Keep left onto Loughborough Road, A60
  6. 6 : km 2.82 - alt. 53 m - Turn left onto Old Road
  7. 7 : km 3.04 - alt. 67 m - Turn right onto Old Road
  8. 8 : km 4.44 - alt. 37 m - Turn left onto Loughborough Road
  9. 9 : km 4.7 - alt. 34 m - Turn left
  10. 10 : km 5.22 - alt. 40 m - Turn left onto Loughborough Road, A60
  11. 11 : km 6.07 - alt. 39 m - Keep left onto Loughborough Road, A60
  12. 12 : km 6.1 - alt. 39 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto Loughborough Road, A60
  13. 13 : km 17.2 - alt. 70 m - Turn left
  14. 14 : km 17.52 - alt. 70 m - Turn right onto Loughborough Road, A60
  15. 15 : km 17.73 - alt. 70 m - Turn sharp right onto Prestwold Lane
  16. 16 : km 22.42 - alt. 57 m - At roundabout, take exit 2 onto Nottingham Road
  17. 17 : km 23.37 - alt. 50 m - Keep left onto High Street
  18. 18 : km 23.4 - alt. 52 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto South Street
  19. 19 : km 23.55 - alt. 57 m - Turn right onto Mill Lane
  20. 20 : km 24 - alt. 43 m - Keep right onto Mill Lane
  21. 21 : km 24.38 - alt. 41 m - Keep right
  22. 22 : km 24.82 - alt. 42 m - Keep right
  23. 23 : km 24.96 - alt. 42 m - Turn right
  24. 24 : km 25.14 - alt. 42 m - Keep right
  25. 25 : km 25.33 - alt. 42 m - Turn slight right
  26. 26 : km 25.6 - alt. 44 m - Turn left onto Loughborough Road
  27. 27 : km 25.74 - alt. 45 m - Turn right onto Bond Lane
  28. 28 : km 26.96 - alt. 86 m - Turn left onto Wood Lane
  29. 29 : km 29.39 - alt. 71 m - Turn right onto Station Road
  30. 30 : km 29.73 - alt. 71 m - Turn left onto Thurcaston Lane
  31. 31 : km 32.07 - alt. 57 m - Turn left onto Sheepwash Lane Footpath
  32. 32 : km 32.09 - alt. 58 m - Turn slight right onto Sheepwash Lane Footpath
  33. 33 : km 33.16 - alt. 59 m - Turn left
  34. 34 : km 33.24 - alt. 60 m - Keep left
  35. 35 : km 33.94 - alt. 62 m - Turn left
  36. 36 : km 33.96 - alt. 63 m - Turn sharp right onto Gorse Hill
  37. 37 : km 34.02 - alt. 63 m - Turn left onto Leicester Road
  38. 38 : km 34.36 - alt. 71 m - Keep left onto Leicester Road
  39. 39 : km 34.44 - alt. 73 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto A46
  40. 40 : km 34.48 - alt. 72 m - Turn left
  41. 41 : km 34.59 - alt. 75 m - Turn right
  42. 42 : km 35.74 - alt. 73 m - At roundabout, take exit 3 onto Station Road
  43. 43 : km 36.24 - alt. 70 m - Turn slight right onto Station Road
  44. 44 : km 36.85 - alt. 70 m - Keep right onto Station Road
  45. 45 : km 36.86 - alt. 69 m - At roundabout, take exit 1 onto The Square
  46. 46 : km 37.06 - alt. 68 m - Keep left onto Kirby Road
  47. 47 : km 38.17 - alt. 77 m - Keep left onto Kirby Road
  48. 48 : km 38.2 - alt. 77 m - At roundabout, take exit 3 onto Ratby Lane, B5380
  49. 49 : km 39 - alt. 91 m - At roundabout, take exit 3 onto Ratby Lane, B5380
  50. 50 : km 39.55 - alt. 96 m - Turn right
  51. 51 : km 39.83 - alt. 93 m - Turn right
  52. 52 : km 40.28 - alt. 94 m - Turn right onto Beechwood Avenue
  53. 53 : km 40.45 - alt. 94 m - Turn right onto Beechwood Avenue
  54. 54 : km 40.52 - alt. 94 m - Turn left onto Beechwood Avenue
  55. 55 : km 40.54 - alt. 94 m - Turn right onto Beechwood Avenue
  56. 56 : km 40.67 - alt. 98 m - Turn left onto Kirby Lane
  57. 57 : km 40.73 - alt. 98 m - Turn right onto Hinckley Road, A47
  58. E : km 41.69 - alt. 105 m

Useful Information

Always stay careful and alert while following a route. Visorando and the author of this walk cannot be held responsible in the event of an accident during this route.

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Walking Some Highlights of Nottingham

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↔13.00 km ↗+99 m ↘-90 m ◔4h 00 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Nottingham

Great easy walk from the center of Nottingham to view the green spaces of Wollaton Park and the University of Nottingham then spot Robin Hood on the way back at Nottingham Castle.

Walking Nottingham, Pentrich and South Wingfield Revolution

Association or club
Nottingham, Pentrich and South Wingfield Revolution
↔2.32 km ↗+12 m ↘-11 m ◔0h 40 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Nottingham

This urban walk visits sites associated with the planning of the rebellion, activities of government agents, preparations by the authorities to suppress the rising and the aftermath. This is Walk 1 of the Pentrich and South Wingfield Revolution group.

Walking Clifton Grove and River Trent from Barton Green - Nottinghamshire

Walker
Clifton Grove and River Trent from Barton Green - Nottinghamshire
↔3.47 km ↗+42 m ↘-38 m ◔1h 05 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Nottingham

A pleasant and easy walk in Nottinghamshire encompassing tree-side tracks, open fields, the River Trent, Clifton Village and a farm.

Walking Giltbrook, Pentrich and South Wingfield Revolution

Association or club
Giltbrook, Pentrich and South Wingfield Revolution
↔4.50 km ↗+19 m ↘-19 m ◔1h 20 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Greasley (Nottinghamshire)

This walk visits sites associated with the story of Pentrich and South Wingfield Revolution. In the morning of 10th June the Pentrich rebels approached the stream, the Gilt Brook, marching down the Nottingham Road from Eastwood. This walk takes you to places associated with these events and follows the route of the final part of their march. This is Walk 13 of the Pentrich and South Wingfield Revolution group.

Walking Ilkeston, Pentrich and South Wingfield Revolution

Association or club
Ilkeston, Pentrich and South Wingfield Revolution
↔1.53 km ↗+19 m ↘-19 m ◔0h 30 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Erewash (Derbyshire)

This is a short urban walk around the centre of Ilkeston which traces the connections of the town to the Pentrich Rising of 1817. In the early 1800s Ilkeston was a village of 2000 people. William Felkin, born here in 1795, a framework knitter or stockinger, became mayor of Nottingham and a respected historian. He recalled that ‘the streets were dirty and unpaved’ and ‘noted the ‘squalid wretchedness of their abodes’, many ‘little better than huts inside or outside.
This is Walk 23 of the Pentrich and South Wingfield Revolution group.

Walking From Bingham, including Car Colston

Walker
↔8.19 km ↗+8 m ↘-8 m ◔2h 20 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Bingham (Nottinghamshire)

A lovely walk starting in the market town of Bingham, Nottinghamshire. Leading into the quiet countryside with mosty well-kept paths to Car Colston, where you can have a well-deserved refreshing drink in a dog friendly pub, before heading back to Bingham.

Walking Newstead Abbey from Linby

Walker
↔8.78 km ↗+41 m ↘-41 m ◔2h 40 ▲Easy
⚑Departure from Linby CP (Nottinghamshire)

This circular walk in Nottinghamshire starts from the attractive village of Linby, a conservation village, and uses part of the dismantled Great Northern Railway line to get to Newstead Abbey, the ruins of an Augustinian Priory built by Henry II in 1170. The return to Linby is through Abbey Woods and Papplewick village.

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Walker
↔9.64 km ↗+73 m ↘-73 m ◔3h 00 ▲Moderate
⚑Departure from Greasley (Nottinghamshire)

A moderate walk for all weathers on well trodden tracks through varied terrain including woodland, along a reservoir and on open tracks with great views over the outer Nottinghamshire Countryside.

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