Mountsorrel

Monday 22nd February
I had the day off so we went for a walk today. We drove to Mountsorrel and parked and walked towards the river. We had to take a long diversion to reach the underpass under the A6 but once across we joined the Leicestershire Round and headed towards the weir. We headed off beside the river and found the first of the LR caches - anew series that will take us some time to do. We then walked beside the river for some time, watching the swans and ducks until the path passed back under the A6 and then we continued beside the river startling a heron who flew off just in front of us. We walked under the conveyor belt that carries stone from the quarry and stopped to find a cache after which we crossed the river and headed into Mountsorrel walking up Bank lane towards what should have been a bridleway. The map showed the path going through Stonehurst Farm but we could not find it. We wandered around and found a farmer in the farm shop. He said the path had never gone through the farm and was surprised to see it on the map. We looked round the shop and after finding out about the farm practices decided to revisit at a later date to try some of their meat. He told us how to find the correct path and we followed it towards the quarry which we had to walk through dodging the mud and slurry to get onto the footpath. We left the footpath and onto the road. We found a cache near a railway bridge and then walked back along the road to the car having walked 10.6 km.