From Cricket Fields to Green Lanes

(S/E) Leave the car park by the John Street entrance and turn right. At the end, cross the main road into the Market Place. Go into the churchyard and follow the path to the left of the church until you reach the road.

(1) Turn left, past the Festival Hall car park, over the bridge and left again down Rase Lane. Enter the sports ground and turn left. Follow the path around the edge of the field then on to the back of the industrial estate, always keeping the stream on your left.

(2) Turn right at the fence alongside the fenced compound. Cross the road and continue straight across to the main road, Gallamore Lane, emerging next to the Ambulance Station.

Turn left along Gallamore Lane, keeping to the grass verge, before carefully crossing over.

(3) After the left-hand bend, turn right along the footpath signposted Beck House. At Low Grange Farm, follow the path round the barn to the right and continue straight on.

(4) Turn left into Low Lane then immediately right at the waymarker. Cross the stream using the footbridge to the stile at the end of the field. Continue following the footpath across the fields and over the stile until you reach Skinners Lane.

Early in the 20th Century, the area between Low Lane and Skinners Lane was one of the sites of Market Rasen's race course.

(5) Turn left onto Skinners Lane and continue along the bridleway, ignoring the road as it turns left at Prospect Farm.

(6) When you reach a footpath on your left, turn left onto the footpath and over a footbridge. Take the grassy track and walk toward the village of Middle Rasen. Go through the kissing gates and follow the school fence to enter the cemetery Follow the path through the cemetery and exit via a metal gate into North Street where you turn left to walk past the church and Primary School.

(7) Take the waymarked path to the right, through the kissing gate and over the footbridge. Follow the path as it follows the stream, through the gate, across the field to another gate on the right.

When you get to the road, go left over the bridge and immediately left down a track and through the gate on your right. Continue across the fields, through gates to Gallamore Lane.

Turn left and carefully cross the road, taking the footpath on your right across the field and between houses to emerge on the A631. Turn left and return to Market Rasen along the footpath.(S/E)

Maps: OS Landranger 112 & 113, OS Pathfinder 730 & 747, OS Explorer 281 & 282

Parking: Car park in John Street, Market Rasen Map Ref: TF108 891 Post Code LN8 3HH. Please check for parking tariffs.

Terrain: Good footpaths and bridleways which can be very muddy at times. Some verge walking. All on level ground.

Refreshments: Cafes and pubs in Market Rasen and Middle Rasen.

Toilets: John Street, Market Rasen

Stiles: Numerous. Many are stock proof and therefore may be difficult for some dogs.

The Lincolnshire Wolds is a National Landscape, designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in 1973. Covering an area of 558 square kilometres or 216 square miles, the AONB contains the highest ground in eastern England between Yorkshire and Kent, rising to over 150m along its western edge. Rolling chalk hills and areas of sandstone and clay underlie this attractive landscape.

The Lincolnshire Wolds has been inhabited since prehistoric times and the appearance of the countryside today has been greatly influenced by past and present agricultural practices.

A Countryside Service helps to protect and enhance the landscape through partnership projects with local landowners, farmers, parish councils, businesses and residents of the Wolds.

Office Address :
Lincolnshire Wolds Countryside Service
Navigation Warehouse
Riverhead Road
Louth
Lincs LN11 0DA

Phone: 01522 555780 X @LincsWoldsNL FB @LincsWoldsNL

Website: https://www.lincswolds.org.uk