Walk Details
Our walk today starts in Market Overton near the parish church. We’re walking out of the village, downhill on Teigh Road. After 1⁄2 mile we will see a group of buildings on the left. We continue on, following the zigzag of the road until we reach a junction at Teigh.
Turning left at the junction, we then almost immediately take the bridleway marked at Moor Lane and continue walking along here until we reach an unmanned level crossing.
Cross with care, we then go through a gate into the gardens of Teigh Gatehouse, and head out through a gate with brick pillars and to continue along the lane.
At the end of the lane, we turn left onto the road and walk into the village. We will come to a junction with Main Street alongside the parish church. We turn left here and follow Ashwell Road out of the village. We need to look for a bridleway that carries on straight ahead as the road bends sharply to the left.
Continue as far as a field entrance where the path swaps to the left-hand side of the hedge line. We carry on to the end of this second field and turn right, through another field entrance until we spot a double stile in the hedge to your left. Crossing over this we continue to walk straight ahead.
Following the grass path, we cross a footbridge to another hedge line. From here we follow the footpath round to the right until we reach another footbridge. Here we turn left, over the bridge and head towards the right-hand edge of the field. Soon we will reach a gate and then a gap in the hedge that leads around the edge of a field and down into Langham on Manor Lane.
Turn right here, and then left into Orchard Road, emerging into Mill Street. Turn left and walk along Mill Street. Pass the village church and take a footpath to the right that leads out onto Burley Road. Now turn left and look for a footpath to the left.
Walk along this path, until we reach another path marked to the left, alongside the sewage works. We follow the path until we come to a footbridge on the left. Crossing over, we turn right and continue to a marker post and then head straight across the field to Ashwell Road. Turn right here and follow the road into Ashwell, coming to a junction where we carry on past an ancient well. We continue to the crossroads, turning right and carrying on until we reach Woodside Lane on the left.
Head to the right, following a path over fields, and at a gap in the hedge line, cross over a footbridge. Head slightly to the left, towards the field boundary and a stile. Cross and walk diagonally across the field, to a gap in the hedge line. Turning to the right would bring us to the Rutland Railway Museum (somewhere worth visiting when you have time). Cross over the lane, we head into a field, walking diagonally across two more fields and then over a footbridge until we reach a stile, then the road.
Here we turn right and continue until we see a footpath to our left. Cross over the stile into the field. Walk alongside the remnants of the Oakham to Melton canal on our left until we reach a stile and footbridge on the right.
Cross over and follow the left-hand edge of the field round to another footbridge. Now head across the field to a gap in the hedge that takes us onto a grass path which is the final walk into Market Overton. Emerging on Berry Bushes, turn right to reach the village green and then left, past the village shop to return to where we started.
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