Alkborough Flats

Start - At entrance to Julian’s Bower, Back Lane, DN15 9JN

• 1
  Enter the gate for Julian's Bower and follow the footpath marked 'Permissive Footpath to Alkborough Flats'. This goes down a gully, through a kissing gate swinging left, then right down through two more gates to reach a grit path.
• 2
  Turn left, the grit surface soon runs out, becoming grass: follow the left hand edge, immediately after crossing a wide dyke bear left following the waymarks along the left hand field edge.
• 3
  Go through a gate, over a bank, through another gate into a wide grit lane.
• 4
  Turn right (the signpost indicates Trent Falls), later as the lane bends right through gates, proceed straight along a narrower track, going through a gate at the end.
• 5
  Climb the riverbank, turn right along it; go through another kissing gate and continue to a signpost indicating Trent Falls 330 yards (straight on) and Alkborough 1¼ miles down to the right.
• 6
  Turn right towards Alkborough, go through a gate onto a wide grit lane; follow this as it bends right and then left again, the tidal flats now on the left.
• 7
  Continue over the bank and up the hill on Prospect Lane.
• 8
  Bend right to a road and bend right again on a grass path round the Church into Churchside, continue ahead past the Coronation Club to the start.