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Walk 1 - The Lord Mayor's Walk

Distance: 4 Miles. Time: 1 ¾ Hours

Please follow the country code:

Guard against fire.

Fasten gates.

Keep dogs under control.

Keep to paths.

Avoid damaging fences, hedges, walls or growing crops.

Leave no litter.

Do not pollute streams, ponds or cattle troughs.

Protect wildlife, plants, trees.

Respect the life of the countryside.

Start:	St Wystan’s Church
Buses:	Trent/Barton Buses Villager V3 from Derby or Burton
Car Parking:	By church or car park in Burton Road
OS Map:	Pathfinder 1:25,000 Series Sheet SK22/32 Burton-onTrent
Waymarks:	The walk is waymarked with yellow arrows on green discs or signposts throughout most of its length.
Footwear:	Footpaths can be very muddy in places during winter months and after prolonged rain, suitable footwear should be worn.

Park in front of the Church. Walk along the High Street past the Bull’s Head public house, and at the Square (interior decorators on the right) continue into Main Street. After 150 yards turn right beyond the Queen Anne house called The Grange (built in 1703 for Joseph Holbrook, a former Lord Mayor of the City of London) and into Broomhills Lane. At the top bear left and across the farmyard. Follow the track out of the farmyard and, where it bears left at the top of a slope, keep straight ahead on the well-marked path across the field. Go over a stile and across the next field to a double stile. Cross the next narrow field.

Note the undulations known as ridge-and-furrow which resulted from mediaeval ploughing methods. After crossing the next stile bear right across three fields heading towards an electricity pylon. Keep right of the pylon, go through a gate, and make for a white gate in the roadside hedge near the left hand end of the farm buildings. Pass through this gate and onto Knight’s Lane and turn right. Walk along the right-hand side of the road past Broken Flats Farm. Note the attractive roof tile patterns.

After ¼ mile, opposite the entrance to Hill Farm, cross the stile on the right and walk down the field with the hedge on your left. Skylarks can be seen rising from the fields, and yellow hammers in the hedges, with wrens, robins, sparrows and partridges about. There are good views across the Trent Valley at this point. On a clear day Tutbury Castle and also the hills of the Peak District beyond Ashbourne are visible. Where the hedge bears left at the bottom of the slope notice the spring source on the right with its blocks of stone now scattered and where the cattle drink the water. It is the source of the stream which later flows down Well Lane and into the Repton Brook.

Go through the right-hand gate at the end of the field and straight across the next field towards a solitary tree, but following the path, and then bear right, heading towards the distant cooling towers. This takes you past the remains of Cockey Barn, where a derelict farmcart rests among the stone ruins. Continue on and pass through a gate (the spire of Winshill Church can be seen on your right) and walk across the field, keeping straight on where two paths meet about half way across. Cross a stile and bear right towards a tree in the middle of the field and on to a stile at the far side. Cockey Barn Farm is on your left. Cross a stile and bear slightly right across the next field to a gate in the right-hand corner. Pass through this gate and turn right along the track between fences.

At the junction of tracks keep ahead over the stile. Follow the footpath and stiles until you reach Chestnut Way. Wild cherry blossom in season grows in the jetty into Chestnut Way. Cross this road, diagonally to the right, and follow the narrow path between houses and round a playing field, over a new stile and on to Mitre Drive. Turn left and walk down to the Burton Road and turn right and past the Red Lion Public House to get back to the Cross and the Church.

This “Repton Rambles” leaflet is one of a series of three guides published in May 1995 by the Repton Footpath Group under the auspices of the Repton Parish Council. The Repton Footpath Group walkers were Alan Webster, Sue Ellis and David Guest. The support of the Repton Village Society and the Repton Village History Group is also acknowledged.

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