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The route is waymarked with a blue bell symbol.
(S/E) Start the walk on the footpath beside The Bungalow on Main Road. (To reach the start, with the Blue Bell Inn behind you, turn right down Main Road. The bungalow and footpath are on your right.)
The outward half of the walk follows the Viking Way.
The Viking Way is a 147 mile long distance footpath running from the Humber to Oakham in Rutland.
(1) Walk along the field edges, cross the footbridge over the River Waring and continue along the public footpath with hedges on both sides.
(2) Juicetrump Hill is on your right. Some believed this ‘unnatural’ wedge-shaped mound was a Neolithic longbarrow. It is however a type of limestone outcrop – called roachstone. Roachstone is a rock formed of a harder material than the underlying Tealby clays and limestone, and so weathers more slowly, leaving strange looking hillocks. (There is no public access to Juicetrump itself.)
(3) Belchford Wood is an ancient semi-natural woodland, which is carpeted in spring with bluebells beneath the ash and oak trees. There is no access to the woodland.
As you go past Belchford Wood you have good views northwards over Scamblesby and to the preserved World War II mast at RAF Stenigot. This was one of the country’s first radar stations, coming into operation at the beginning of the war.
Go through several gates, following the Viking Way downhill to join a farm track, then a metalled road.
(4) Follow Mill Lane towards Scamblesby to a public footpath on your left, just past the last house on your left, opposite White House Farm. (If you reach a road junction, you have gone too far.)
If you need refreshments, continue straight ahead to the Green Man Inn, with its unusual sign. Retrace your steps to rejoin the walk.
(5) Turn left onto the footpath, leaving the Viking Way. Cross the field, go through a gap in the hedge and turn left. Continue through a section of trees. Where the path is crossed by a bridleway, turn left through the hedge and go uphill, across the next field. Head for the left hand edge of the hedge on the skyline. Go through the gap and continue through a gate, then head for another gate at the corner of the next field.
(6) Follow the track through Flintwood Farm where, in the field to your left, numerous ponds have been created and trees and wild grasses have been planted and sown to create a wildlife haven (there is no access to this area). Continue downhill until you reach Main Road. Turn left and return to the start.(S/E)
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