Start: The Great Northern Public House, Langley Mill. OS ref. Explorer 260-452 472
(S/E) Starting outside the Great Northern pub (A), turn right (West) on A608 and walk across the bridge over the canal and immediately turn right down steps to the canal. Go right (South) again under the bridge along the towpath, walking away from the canal basin. Note the sign under the bridge indicating the beginning of the Cromford Canal.
(1) Keep along the towpath of the Erewash Canal, Pass Bridge 27.
(2) When you get to the next bridge, 26, cross over the bridge and walk on. After 100 yards cross another brick bridge over the disused Nottingham Canal. Follow the track to the road bridge over the A610. The ‘No Parking’ sign on your right is in English and Polish, presumably in honour of Eastwood's friendship with Myszkow, Poland.
(3) Turn left (North-East) to cross over the A610 and follow Church Street up the hill, passing the Raleigh works on the left and Eastwood Cemetery (containing D.H.Lawrence's family) on your right.
(4) At the top of Church Street (B) use the traffic light crossing to walk across to the Sun Inn. (Shorter route available from here see below "Useful information".) To continue on the main walk pass to the right of the Sun Inn, noting the D.H. Lawrence motif on the railings and pagoda.
Carry on downhill by the A608, turning right to cross the road again with the petrol station on your left. As you continue down the road you will pass Princes Street where the family home of D.H.Lawrence can be found. After 220 yards pass the Memorial Park on your right, then Durban House.The road becomes Nether Green. Pass the entrance to Eastwood Hall on your left and carry on for half a mile or so.
(5) Pass the sign to Brinsley. Just before the Brinsley Headstocks sign on your right, turn left (West) on the footpath signed Aldercar and Stoney Lane. The path zig-zags between hedges. Ignore a stile on the right and skirt a farm to descend to the Erewash Valley ahead.
(6) Through a gate turn left down a tarmac lane. (Ignore the footpath going right to the right which goes back to
Brinsley.) Pass Aldercar Flash Nature Reserve on your right. Cross over the River Erewash (more like a stream here.) Walk on then turn left under the road bridge with the railway on your right.
The track emerges onto a road (Plumptre Road). Walk straight on and then turn left down Cromford Road (C) and left (East) again at the roundabout to make your way back to the start.
(7) As you make your way back to the Great Northern pub, passing a smaller bridge to the right, taking water pipes (D). (S/E)