Bagworth (Markfield) Thornton 3 or 6 miles (5 or 9km)
Holy Rood Church at Bagworth © Copyright Trevor Rickard http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2187802
Undulating ground over a mixture of meadow and arable land. The waymarking is good and the route not difficult to follow. The outward and inward sections of the walk meet at a stile close to Thornton reservoir. At this point you could omit the (uphill) section to the motorway and shorten the walk to 2 and a half miles. The walk can also be varied by adding a very pleasant 2 mile walk round Thornton reservoir.
Items of interest Bagworth, a former mining village. Thornton reservoir. Ashley’s Wood, recently planted with 3,000 poplar trees as part of the National Forest. Bagworth Park was the site of a great house planned to equal Kirby Muxloe and Ashby Castle, built for William Lord Hastings in the time of Richard III. Leicester to Swannington railway line, opened by Stephenson in 1832, the first public railway in the Midlands (and now re-opened as the Ivanhoe line.) The Bagworth Incline, where Stephenson’s trains were pulled up the hill by an extra engine at the top is now a lovely, quiet, hedged track.
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