Melton Ross, New Barnetby Airport Walk

Start - At hill top road junction above New Barnetby, DN38 6DZ

• 1
  Take the way marked footpath to the left of a derelict building, continue to a Kissing Gate.
• 2
  Continue and walk diagonally left across a field to a Kissing Gate in the hedge.
• 3
  Go through the Kissing Gate, follow the headland path, hedge on your right. At the field end continue straight on.
• 4
  Cross an unsurfaced road, continue on, now to the right of a hedge.
• 5
  When the hedge ends, cross a field descending towards trees, aiming just to the right of the distant Airport Control Tower.
• 6
  Enter the copse, cross a wooden footbridge between two ponds, walk to the left of an old farm following a fence (on your left) through a gate to a road.
• 7
  Turn left (a row of conifers on your right).
• 8
  Take first left onto a farm road gaining entry through an unusual walkerfriendly gate.
• 9
  At Stonecroft House Farm bear right round and alongside a narrow plantation; at its end continue ahead across the field initially to a telegraph pole in the middle, then aiming towards a lamppost with a fir tree behind it at New Barnetby.
• 10
  Turn left up the long, ascending road back to the starting point.