Belton Railway

Start - Belton Picnic area, DN9 1NY

• 1
  Leave the car park, walking back towards Belton until the ponds appear on your left. Carefully cross the A161 and go up a short slope onto the line of the old railway entering a the track through a marked gateway.
• 2
  Go through the next gateway along a short road passing the Steers Arms on your right and reaching the main A161 again.
• 3
  Cross the main road carefully and follow it to the right, turning left up Stockshill for about 50 yards and then bearing right at the junction past the church.
• 4
  Immediately after passing the church on your right, turn right on a high footpath for about 100 yards towards The Crown pub.
• 5
  Just before the last bungalow on the left, turn down a narrow path which soon opens out with fields on your right, cross a lane and follow another lane to Goose Pitts Farm.
• 6
  At the gateway, turn left with the high hedge on your right. The path bends right to a road junction. For a shorter route, turn left along the road, cross at the left bend, and follow the waymarked headland path to the picnic area.
• 7
  For the full walk go straight down Belshaw Lane. Turn left onto North Ferry Road.
• 8
  At the right hand bend here a waymarked path goes straight on (a shortcut) but follow the lane past North Ferry Farm as it deteriorates.
• 9
  Turn left onto the line of the railway soon passing where the shortcut comes in and walking between bushes and trees on a slightly rising embankment.
• 10
  Turn left on wide track through the picnic area to the car park.