To Legsby & Linwood and back again via Linwood Road

This walk starts from Market Rasen and heads through fields over the Coversands; soils which are very deep but which dry out quickly and are subject to wind erosion. The route follows the National Cycle Route for a distance.

Technical sheet

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A Market Rasen walk posted on 26/07/19 by Lincolnshire Wolds. Last update : 08/02/24
  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 7.51 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 2h 10 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Moderate

  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 13 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 13 m

  • ▲
    Highest point: 41 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 27 m
  • ⚐
    District: Market Rasen 
  • ⚑
    Start/End: N 53.386211° / W 0.336385°

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Description

(S/E) Start in the car park in John Street, Market Rasen. Leave the car park by the John Street entrance and turn left.

Turn left again into Chapel Street, pass the magnificent lonic column frontage of the Methodist Church and go under the railway bridge.

Cross over Linwood Road into Serpentine Street and turn right into a narrow passage immediately after Maltings Court.

Go straight on at the end of a cul-de-sac into a footpath passage opposite. Cross over the street to the next waymarker, into the footpath opposite, keep straight on.

(1) Continue straight on, keeping the cemetery on your left, until you reach Legsby Road. Turn right at the road, walking out of the town.

(2) Just past "The Ridings" housing estate on the right-hand side, take the footpath between the bungalows at the waymarker.

At the end of the gardens, cross diagonally leftover two fields then go left to a gate.

Follow the hedge line, before following the arrow sign on the post, diagonally right across the field to Woodhill Farm.

(3) At the farm entrance, go through a gate and follow the direction arrows. At the corner go diagonally right and aim for the marker post near a tree at the end of a hedge.

Continue in the same direction, crossing the next field to the hedge.

(4) At the four-way marker post on Willingham Lane byway turn right and follow the Willingham Lane byway all the way to the main road at Linwood, turning right along the foot/cycle path beside the road, past the National Cycle Network sculpture.

Across Britain is a series of cycle routes called the National Cycle Network. The sculpture here signifies that this is part of Route 1, which runs from Hull to Harwich.

(5) Go past the Poplars on your left, then turn left along a footpath, just before the Market Rasen sign keeping the hedge on your left.

(6) With care, cross the railway line and turn immediately right, keeping parallel to a fence. Continue through a hedge and past another railway crossing.

(7) Follow the path away from the railway line then between houses. Cross the block-paved road and continue on the urban path to another waymarker, next to a large grassy hollow.

(8) Turn right at the tarmac road (Mill Road). Continue downhill to the school. Follow the road right, then left by the library, cross Chapel Street and back to John Street car park.

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 28 m - John Street Car Park
  2. 1 : km 0.56 - alt. 30 m - Legsby Road
  3. 2 : km 1 - alt. 32 m - The Ridings
  4. 3 : km 1.92 - alt. 41 m - Woodhill Farm
  5. 4 : km 2.58 - alt. 38 m - Four Way Marker Post
  6. 5 : km 4.78 - alt. 33 m - The Poplars
  7. 6 : km 6.11 - alt. 32 m - Railway Line
  8. 7 : km 6.51 - alt. 33 m
  9. 8 : km 6.83 - alt. 36 m - Mill Road
  10. S/E : km 7.51 - alt. 28 m - John Street Car Park

Useful Information

Maps: OS Explorer Map 282 OS Landranger 113 OSPathfinder 747

Parking: Car park in John Street, Market Rasen - Grid ref: TF 108 891 Postcode LN8 3HH. Check for parking tariffs.

Terrain: A mixture of footpaths, byways and fields - can be very muddy at times. Some verge walking. All on level ground.

Refreshments: Cafes and Pubs in Market Rasen.

Toilets: John Street, Market Rasen.

Stiles: Numerous.

The Lincolnshire Wolds is a National Landscape, designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in 1973. Covering an area of 558 square kilometres or 216 square miles, the AONB contains the highest ground in eastern England between Yorkshire and Kent, rising to over 150m along its western edge. Rolling chalk hills and areas of sandstone and clay underlie this attractive landscape.

The Lincolnshire Wolds has been inhabited since prehistoric times and the appearance of the countryside today has been greatly influenced by past and present agricultural practices.

A Countryside Service helps to protect and enhance the landscape through partnership projects with local landowners, farmers, parish councils, businesses and residents of the Wolds.

Office Address :
Lincolnshire Wolds Countryside Service
Navigation Warehouse
Riverhead Road
Louth
Lincs LN11 0DA

Phone: 01522 555780 X @LincsWoldsNL FB @LincsWoldsNL

Website: https://www.lincswolds.org.uk

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