Belton Stockholes Turbary Trail

Start - Belton Picnic area, DN9 1NY

• 1
  Leave the car park to the right of the toilets. Turn right along a wide track immediately before a fence and stile. Pass a cowshed on the right and follow a field headland route for nearly three quarters of a mile.
• 2
  The path emerges at a bend of Carrhouse Road. Continue ahead for less than 100 yards.
• 3
  Turn left into Belshaw Lane.
• 4
  As the lane meets the Epworth/Sandtoft road, turn right along the roadside for 100-150 yards. At a bend, cross the first bridge and turn right along a path between Folly Drain on your right and the larger South Engine Drain on the left.
• 5
  The path bends left and becomes narrower following the South Engine Drain. At the end of the trees on the right, turn right along a short field edge path and into a rough lane.
• 6
  At another lane junction, turn right. Folly Drain soon reappears from the right, running alongside the lane to the road junction.
• 7
  Cross Westgate Road to the pavement opposite and turn right. Ignore Carrhouse Road on the right.
• 8
  Re-cross the road into Mann Lane on the right. This wide lane becomes a track going uphill and bending round to the left.
• 9
  Go ahead at a track junction and upon reaching a second with Belton High Street, cross the road, turn right and left down Jeffrey Lane.
• 10
  Cross the road turning right along the grit surfaced former railway line past a playing field on the right, continuing ahead, ignoring any side paths.
• 11
  The track descends the embankment to the A161 again. Cross carefully to the start point.