WOODHOUS EAVES

This is one of my favourite local walks (Leicestershire.)Start at Woodhouse Eaves plenty of pubs (4). You first enter Broombriggs country park. The first climb is up broombriggs hill, nice views with a board at the top to show how it has changed in the last 25years. Used to be able to walk anywhere but they have added a lot of fences and barbed wire, you feel like you are being herded like cattle. The councils likes to waste money and in my opinion has spoilt the landscape but still a nice view from the top. Then off to Beacon hill, to the trig point at the top, more nice views. Then towards Buck Hill after the road you walk down a permissive path which by law has to close once a year so the path doesn't become a right of way. I think they get around this by saying on the plaque closed dusk to dawn, never seen it closed. Then head down hill through woodland, cross a stream, turn right and follow the valley at the second gate turn right again and go over the stream again (bridge this time)After another field and more woodland you come to Buck Hill, some people say that this is the only ridge in Leicestershire but its a outcrop of rocks (volcanic),apparently its one of the oldest rock formations in England. Then of to Outwoods.Cross road and into Outwoods (this part can be muddy so can turn right onto the road and use main entrance). Once you are out of the woods turn right across a field, by a house that looks new on the right but its not. At the top of the lane turn left along a track that turns into a lane that goes back to Woodhouse Eaves. Once you are back on the main road pub in front of you. If you follow are track it takes you through a council housing estate, just did this to look at the houses on our price bracket! but if you would prefer not to, could carry on by the pub until you come to a local village corner shop on the right hand side. Turn right and go uphill past another pub and back to the car. Two more pubs on the main road one before the church and one about 1km after the church (best one). Enjoy