Wednesday 22nd August 2007
Having had the guide books for the Leicestershire round for about 8 years I decided that it would be nice to be able to follow a local trail in the times when we can't get to dosome of our Coast to Coast walk.
The start of the Leicestershire Round is at Burrough Hill country park and we got stuck in a long traffic jam to Melton Mowbray before discovering that we didn't need to go that far, so we turned round and eventually got to the country park where I discovered that I had left the footbeds to my boots at home so had to walk without them. We walked to the top of the hill where the Round begins at a very impressive hill fort. We walked around the embankment and then followed a permissive path through woodland. We walked across fields to get to Somerby where we stopped for lunch at the 3 Crowns, (steak and ale pies, and 2 pints and 2 halves of Somerby Parish bitter for £14 -not bad). We continued the walk to Owston and then did a return circle, mainly across fields. The last field was very difficult to walk on as it had just been ploughed. My feet were suffering by now due to no footbeds but we eventually got back to the hill fort after 17km.
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