Get your boots on!
… get your boots on!
15th September 2024: Keeping it local, this is a stitching together of sections of previous local walks. Challenging in parts, but mainly easy-going. There is a 7 mile option and a 9.5 mile option. Also, there is a choice of one or two pub stops!
Introduction The Weekday Walkers has grown from just two of us in the pre-covid days to 14 (at the time of writing). We are not a breakaway group, but rather a bunch of folk who like to go walking early in the day. We usually set off at 8:30 a.m. from Fleckney village car park…
3rd March 2024: Take the Leicestershire Round from Fleckney to Saddingtont then over Smeeton Gorse – yes that big hill! Continue along the Round all the way to Gumley, then pathways to Laughton. Rest, eat, return along paths, bridleways, and road.
The last walk of the year was a bit of an adventure with fallen trees and mystery paths, culminating in food, drinks, and entertainment.
Laughton by Road Laughton by Road Map Download the GPX file This is an easy, mainly road-based walk of just over 7 miles from Fleckney to Laughton and back. There are no stiles, some minor undulation, and only one muddy patch. From Fleckney we carefully walk along the pavement, if you can call it that,…
Sheila led us from the allotments in Saddington along the Leicestershire Round down past Manor Farm and up to Smeeton Gorse and you come out onto Debdale Lane just before Gumley.