This week’s circular walk takes you on a trip around the picturesque Dumbles at Lambley. It’s such a place of peace and tranquility that it might come as a bit of a shock to discover that the bustling city of Nottingham is only eight miles away!
Distance:Â 6.25 miles(10.1km )
Calculated time:Â 3hrs
Difficulty: Hard
Map of the walk
1. Lambley pub
From The Lambley pub, walk down Main Street into the centre of the village. In 220yds (21Om) go right In 220yds (21Om) go right for a path between houses and around the edge of a fenced field.
Turn left at the end and go over successive styles (at the second take the left-hand choice of two) for a path behind houses. Turn left at the end to drop down, cross the road and enter Reed Pond Nature Reserve.
2. Around the copse
Veer left to reach the gate in the far left corner. Turn right and out along the bottom of several large fields, cutting across the lower part of the second, Continue around the edge of a copse and when you reach a large sloping field ahead of you, turn left.
3. Near the airstrip
Follow the wide track uphill to the left of the hedge. In the far corner of the third field, with a grassy airstrip along its middle, turn left (not the footpath straight on) and walk along the field-edge.
4. Drop down the hillside
Just before it ends go right and, following the direction of the footpath post (not the bridleway), aim half left across the next field then bear left across pasture Drop
down the hillside, aiming for the stile beyond the wooden enclosure in the far corner by the road.
5. Going past the farm
Turn right and walk along the roadside verge past Woodbarn Farm to the sharp right hand bend. Go left across the top of successive fields to reach the wooded track on the far side. Turn left here and stay on this path as it bends left and becomes a wide trail which leads
all the way back to the junction with Lingwood Lane.
6. Head for the football pitch
Turn right, cross a field (aiming half left), then follow the waymarks down through
three fields into the woodland at the bottom. Go straight on via a footbridge, left into a field on the far side, then almost immediately right and walk up through a field and
to the top. Climb the steps and turn left on to the road for 100yds (91m), then go right beside a bungalow to drop down diagonally right across ridged fields to the
football pitch.
7. A stroll through Bonney Doles
At the far corner continue on a popular (and obvious) path to walk through a newly planted woodland area known as Bonney Doles. Go over a footbridge, turn left, and follow the field-edge to the corner.
8. Back top the start
Here a short path with a handrail ventures into the bumpy wooded dell for a short way. Ignore this and continue around to cross another footbridge. Turn left and follow the path through the woods, then the field bottom along the south side of Lambley Dumble, eventually turning left on to Spring Lane to return to the car park.
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