Allerton Moor

Description

(D/A) Turn right from the entrance of Mount Pleasant Farm and walk along the road for 150 yards. Continue along the larger road at the junction with Rawlings Lane for a quarter of a mile to Ashton Windmill.

(1) In the left-hand corner of the windmill compound, climb a stile and walk along the hedge beyond past a water trough. In the corner of the field, turn right and walk down (with the hedge on your left) to the farm buildings.

Officially speaking, the right-of-way passes between hedge and barn, but if this is overgrown walk out to the road through the farmyard. Turn left along the lane and follow it as it curves right into the hamlet of Ashton.

(2) At the road junction beyond Hillview Farm, take the no-through road on the right. Follow the lane for half a mile, passing Moor View Farm, beyond which the tarmac ends and the lane becomes a farm track.
When the track turns left, leave it for the grassy drove ahead of you.
This narrows and swings to the right, with views over the Levels to the church tower at Mark. The path runs beside a drain before widening and meeting a metalled lane.

(3) Turn left over the bridge then immediately right through a gate into fields, with the drain now on your right. Follow the drain through three fields, whereupon a track joins from the left by an overgrown footbridge. Ignore the
bridge and continue along the left bank of the drain to an arched stone bridge (Broadness Bow). Again, stay on the left bank of the drain and continue for a further half-mile to a concrete bridge at a junction of tracks.

(4) Turn right here and follow the track for half a mile into Stone Allerton (ignoring a bridleway off to the right where you meet the tarmac). Follow the lane between cottages and farmhouses to a junction.
Carry straight on at the junction (signposted to Chapel Allerton and Mark). Follow the road as it bears right to the junction with New Road at a house called “Corners”.
Keep along the road, with the war memorial on your right.

(5) Pass Sycamore Farm on your right and walk between cottages and out of the main village. At Wayside Cottage, turn right and follow a winding lane between hedges (ignoring paths to right and left). At the next junction, turn right past the Wheatsheaf and continue beyond back to Mount Pleasant Farm. (D/A)