No cash left for a social life after the festive period? Go healthy and take a mooch in Lincolnshire, writes Emma Mathias
Distance: 8 miles / 13 km
Terrain: Easy to moderate. An ascent of 15 metres in total. There are no stiles.
Places: Takes in Chambers Farm Wood, Minting and Gautby.
CHAMBERS Farm Wood, near Market Rasen, has several wintry walks to choose from.
Pick a path and head off into the wilderness for a brisk, January wander in the woods.
If you are unsure about a route, try the following walk for size ...
Starting at OS Grid Ref TF147740 or post code LN8 5JR, leave the car park and wander back towards the visitor's centre. Then take a right, finding signs for the "White Route" through the woods.
Immediately, you will have to take a left turn as the beginning of the path runs parallel to the access road.
Keep looking out for the waymarkers and by a sequence of right turns you will finally join with the "Red Route". This will be at a broad forestry track. Turn left here.
At a track junction, go ahead on the Red Route until it curves back onto itself. You will arrive at a triangular clearing.
Leave the Red Route by turning left. Take the grassy track out of the woods, beyond a vehicle barrier, and onto a wide farm track.
Continue onwards for about a mile until you reach a road junction at the edge of Minting village. At the village hall, go ahead and into the village to see the inn and the church. Retrace your steps to the village hall to return to the route.
Take a left here and in half a mile take a right at a T junction, signposted for Gautby. Just past the church, take a right and go right again at the next junction. After a left hand bend, take the right track which meets the outward route at a bend.
Go left and re-enter Chambers Farm Wood. Head back for the triangular clearing, bear left and follow the Red Route to a track junction. Take another left and continue to a right turn. This will bring you back to the car park.
