Epworth East

Start - Holmes and Gardens Garden Centre, Belton Road, DN9 1JL

1. 1
   Leave the car park heading uphill towards the Church.
2. 2
   Turn right through the gate on a path going downhill towards the Town Centre.
3. 3
   Turn left up Hollingsworth Lane.
4. 4
   Cross the road at the bend, continuing down a path alongside gardens.
5. 5
   At a low way mark sign, turn right into an enclosed footpath, continue to a road.
6. 6
   Turn left along Melwood View, crossing Wheatfield Close and Melwood Close, continuing to the junction with Rectory Street.
7. 7
   Turn left on the roadside of Rectory Street; as the main road swings right up Melwood Hill, continue ahead along Newlands Lane, a no-through road.
8. 8
   A finger post left indicates the turn off for the short walk (continue to point 14). For the longer walk, continue along the lane past a house on the left.
9. 9
   Opposite a barn flanked by trees, turn left along a track (Narrow Lane), continue ahead along the straight track to where it bends left and meets a road.
10. 10
    Turn left along this Beltoft to Epworth Road.
11. 11
    After a bridge turn left along a track, passing a farm hard standing on the left.
12. 12
    The track bears right and shortly turns left again.
13. 13
    The track turns right, slightly upslope towards Epworth.
14. 14
    The track joining from the left here is our shorter route from Point 8; continue up the slope alongside the houses on the left, rejoining our outward route from Point 5 to point 4. Turn right along the road.
15. 15
    After the last houses, turn left along a wide track, still slightly uphill past the cemetery on the left. Continue ahead back to the Garden Centre car park