We drove to Hallaton and parked and walked past the church and into the fields. The forecast was for sun but it was overcast with a bitter North wind. Fleece hats were worn for the first time for ages! The terrain is very hilly, not steep but with lots of small up and downs - not rolling like the Downs but very lumpy! We walked across lots of fields which had been seeded (possibly barley) and some which already had new seedlings emerging (oil seed rape). We walked by Cranoe and through Glooston which had a nice pub but we were too early for lunch. The church was locked so we couldn't look round which was a shame as there were some very nice finials on the outside. We walked to Stonton Wyville where we looked round the 13th century church, it was very dark with a dark wood roof and few windows. It had a marble effigy in the corner. It looked like it was quite historical but there were no leaflets around.
We followed on towards Long Langton and had to pass through a field full of cows clustered round the stile, but they were well behaved. We arrived at the pub only to find it doesn't open during the week. We left the LR here and walked along the road (where we passed a very large fungus growing on the side of the road) to Welham where the "Olde Red Lion" was open.
We had very nice gammon steaks with chips peas and salad (2 for £6!)- very good value. We walked across the fields to reach the road to Slawston where we crossed the course of a roman road although there was nothing to see. We then joined the last footpath to return to Hallaton. All the fields had cows in and the last field had some boisterous ones who decided to try and cut us off from the stile. They got very frisky, jumping and running at us. I am definitely going off cows.
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