Epworth East

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

• 1
  Leave the car park heading uphill towards the Church.
• 2
  Turn right through the gate on a path going downhill towards the Town Centre.
• 3
  Turn left up Hollingsworth Lane.
• 4
  Cross the road at the bend, continuing down a path alongside gardens.
• 5
  At a low way mark sign, turn right into an enclosed footpath, continue to a road.
• 6
  Turn left along Melwood View, crossing Wheatfield Close and Melwood Close, continuing to the junction with Rectory Street.
• 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
  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
  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
  Turn left along this Beltoft to Epworth Road.
• 11
  After a bridge turn left along a track, passing a farm hard standing on the left.
• 12
  The track bears right and shortly turns left again.
• 13
  The track turns right, slightly upslope towards Epworth.
• 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
  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