Bingham to Melton Mowbray
A station-to-station walkNottinghamshireEast Midlands
The views across the vale of Belvoir are good. A long, hard but mostly off-road walk across the Vale of Belvoir, scenic with good views from the hill south of Long Clawson, but with little-used, poorly signed field paths that are hard to follow, several diversions around field boundaries and building sites and awkward stiles and some muddy and wet sections. Crosses a section of the Grantham canal. Facilities are sparse: pubs and a shop at Barnstone, Long Clawson and (off route) Hose; Holwell has none.
Lunch: There is a shop and a pub a short distance off route in Hose, and a pub and small shop in Long Clawson.
Warnings: The A52 crossing near Bingham has steps both sides and no central refuge. Several field paths are poorly signed and hard to follow; a significant diversion runs around a building site north of Melton, with awkward stiles in places.
Credits
Walk details: Slow Ways.