All Sunday walks start with a gathering at Fleckney Village car park (///loses.always.huts) at 9:30 a.m.
Tugby, Glooston, Goadby, Rolleston
Leader – John Broadhead
For this walk, we head to Tugby, about 11 miles (or £2.20) from Fleckney. We are aiming to park up in Main Street (///gasping.political.mice) as there is usually plenty of space there.
From Tugby, we initially head southwest along Main Street until there is no more Main Street. There is a wooden gate through which, when opened, leads on to a bridleway. After a tenth of a mile, there is a fork in the path — not one to eat with or dig with — take the left one and head due south and past Lake Home Farm. Then it’s an “igam ogam”, as we say in Wales, but as we’re not there, it’s a zig-zag via a left on Palmer’s Lane, and a right through a metal gate just before the bend in the road.
The bridleway heads due south until it exits onto Horse Hill. We turn left onto this narrow country lane and follow it until we meet a cattle grid. With luck, there should be a gate on the right and a footpath that continues due south until it reaches Glooston Lodge.
We now cross the road and take another bridleway due northwest all the way along to Nosely Hall, where we head north to reach The Avenue. Turn right to head downhill along the road passing Nether Cottages along the way. At the bottom of the hill, turn left onto another bridleway leading northwest up towards Rolleston Hall.
The plan is to turn right before the Hall just after the pond. However, as we are now probably a bit peckish, a short trip into Rolleston to park our bums at the church for a spot of lunch might be in order.
Whatever we decide on the day, we now head slightly north of east along another bridleway to return to Tugby and, of course, the Fox and Hounds for a good natter about the walk, put the world to rights, and have a beverage or two.
This walk is just shy of 9 miles, some undulation, and if you’ve been paying attention, is mostly on bridleways and roads, so no stiles — honestly, Dave, no stiles!
P.S. There is a six-mile option available.
The minutes of the 2025 A.G.M
and the Agenda for the 2026 A.G.M.
(7 p.m. at the Golden Shield on 22nd January)
can be found HERE
General information:
The Fleckney Walking Club meet every other Sunday for a walk of about 6 to 9 miles with a pub stop somewhere along the route.
What3Words is used to pinpoint start and other relevant locations for the walks.
We leave Fleckney village car park at 9:30 a.m. (///loses.always.huts).
For these walks you are advised to wear good quality walking boots and carry weatherproof clothing.
We suggest you also bring refreshments as a coffee stop and/or a picnic stop is also usually on the cards.
For those who are car sharing to walks outside of Fleckney, passengers are requested to subsidise their driver by the amount of 20p per mile (one way). For example, if the start of the walk was 10 miles from Fleckney the fee would be 10 x 20p = £2.
If you fancy leading a walk, there are plenty of ideas for walks here.
During the summer months we also have Thursday evening walks of about 4 to 5 miles in length.
This year the majority of the walks will be local ones, no transport required.
We meet at the village car park, by 7 p.m. (///loses.always.huts).
In the event of a walk being cancelled for any reason (usually weather) the walk leader will communicate the cancellation to club members by email and be at the start meeting point to advise anyone who turned up regardless.
The annual cost to join the Fleckney Walking Club is £10 for the Sunday Walks, or £5 to be a Social Member. Thursday Evening Walks are completely FREE.
You can find The Fleckney Walking Club Group on Facebook. This is a private group but you are welcome to apply to join us.
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