Hello and welcome back to my blog 😊.

Today myself and Mick continued with another leg of the Leicestershire Round. You may recall from an earlier blog that the Leicestershire Round is a 100 mile circular walk around the county of Leicestershire. We are doing the walk in stages and today was a 9 mile walk for leg 3 – Hoby to Thorpe Satchville.

As usual, we parked one car at Thorpe Satchville and the other at Hoby. It was a foggy morning and quite chilly when we resumed our walk by the church in Hoby.

Our first port of call would be Frisby. The mist was proving stubborn at lifting which also made navigating interesting.

We crossed the river Wreake over a wooden bridge hoping the fog would lift soon. When crossing fields we normally look out for the yellow marker posts denoting the exit but we were snookered with the mist.

The walk would turn out to be one where we cross lots of stiles, pass through many gates and, on the first half of the walk, get surprised to find we were walking through a field of cows because they suddenly appeared out of the mist.

Arriving into Frisby a helpful couple pointed us in the right direction of our way out.

Leaving Frisby we started to ascend and continued to do so for quite a while. The mist was lifting and blue skies were visible. We would cross gently rolling hills to Gaddesby.

It was time to get the jackets off as the temperature was rising now.

We arrived in Gaddesby and asked a resident whether there was a bench near by – he pointed us in the right direction. We needed a drink and some food.

Gaddesby is a lovely village with some thatched roof cottages. It also has a grand hall but we only saw its entrance gates.

Refreshed after our break we set off again, passing beside the church. The church is generally reckoned to be the most beautiful in the county with a tall spire that can be seen for miles.

As I was taking the photo a lady who was tending the gardens informed me that inside are grade 1 listed medieval wooden benches.

Leaving Gaddesby we were headed for Ashby Folville. We had to cross four fields that had had manure sprayed over the surface so the air was pungent and slippery underfoot. As Mick said, ‘this would not be a good place to slip over!’ Thankfully, neither of us did. The subsequent fields were grassed so helped clear the muck from our boots. The joys of farmland walking.

We passed through a tunnel under a dismantled railway line (Melton Mowbray line?) and then saw a field containing only black sheep – quite unusual.

Arriving into Thorpe Satchville we both felt that the walk had not been as nice as our other two legs. I guess they can’t all be special. This was more a ‘getting the miles knocked off as the scenery was nothing special’ type walk. Enjoyable never the less – you can’t beat being out and about!

Happy Walking! 😊🚶‍♂️