View from the Limestone Way
Full Walk Distance: 3 miles approximately
Time taken: 1 hour 15 mins possibly longer if your sauntering.
Start point: Winster car park
Sat Nav: For Miners Standard – a pub close to the car park DE4 2DR
Location: The car park can be found just off the B5056.
This walk entails some road walking through Winster at the start and end of the walk, but also includes fields and paths. There is a quite a reasonable section of walled track along the Limestone Way, where you can let your dog off the lead as long as they are well behaved and not likely to jump into fields alongside the track and upset the livestock.
Free car parking – although it is a very small car park and can get very busy with walkers.
If you want to avoid the first section of the walk, which involves a fairly steep downhill stroll to the pick up a footpath towards Bonsall, (which will also avoid a field of sheep and the first section of the Limestone way), you can start from the car park and head up the road towards the pub (The Miners Standard – which is dog friendly) and locate the Limestone Way, which is just off the road signposted to Newhaven. Start your walk from no 7.
Walk in full
1. From the car park, walk down East Bank, heading down a steep hill through a residential area.
2. Partway down the hill on the right hand side, you will see a foot path signed to Bonsall, which leads between two cottages.
3. Take this footpath and then pass through the stile and into the field, bearing right up towards the trees. Be aware that there may be cattle and sheep in the next couple of fields.
4. After the stile in the trees, bear left following the well trodden path.
5. Keep passing through stiles, aiming for a lone stile in the middle of a field. Heading underneath some power cables. You then need to bear right in the field and head up towards some gateposts which will lead you on to the Limestone Way.
6. Once on the Limestone Way, follow the path until you meet the road. You are looking for the road signposted Elton and Newhaven.
7. Walk up this road for just a few metres and then turn right onto the Limestone Way. Walk down this footpath for approximately 1/2 mile.
8. Eventually you will reach a cross road in the tracks (don’t carry on along the Limestone Way) instead on your right hand side you will notice a stile which enters the corner of a field.
9. Go through this stile and head towards a delapidated barn in the middle of the field. You will pass to the right of the barn. In summer the barn may be obscured by trees and bushes.
10. You’ll pass through another stile and then cross the road. Be warned the road can be quite busy and the stile that you need to head towards has some rather steep steps down into the field beyond. It was a bit tricky to negotiate with more than one dog!
11. Walk to the right of the field and then pass through another stile in the wall. Follow the path towards the trees, where you will then walk through open parkland towards the church, where there is a stile in the wall.
12. Walk through the church yard and then when you reach the road, turn right and walk up West Bank, back to the car park.
Walk from the alternate start point
From the car park, walk up the road towards the Miners Standard pub and locate the road signposted Elton & Newhaven. Then follow from step 7 of the full walk.
