Refreshments
Fiskerton
The Bromley Arms - Bar Meals
The Post Office & Village - Shop Facilities

Rolleston
The Crown - Bar Meals

Upton
The Cross Keys - Bar Meals
The French Horn - Bar Meals

Route and Points of Interest

1. From the Car park by the river Trent turn left and follow the road into Fiskerton turning first right into Station Road. Walk down Station Road approximately 1/4 mile until you are just out of the village and take the footpath on the right over a wooden stile to the footpath on top of the floodbank. Follow this footpath which keeps to the right hand side of the field. At the end of the field, cross the small bridge over the river Greet.

2 Cross the bridge and keep left. Follow the footpath for a short distance by the side of the Greet and continue across a large field to Rolleston Church. Walk through the Church Yard to the Road and turn left. Note: The walk can be shortened by turning right and rejoining the walk at point After a slight left bend in the road take the footpath to the right and proceed over the rail crossing (taking care of trains; this is the Nottingham - Newark line) towards Rolleston water mill. The two storey Mill was built in the18th century and is now no longer used.

3. Turn left towards Southwell Racecourse and turn right immediately after the entrance. The footpath follows a wide gravelled track between the racecourse boundary fence and the River Greet. Just before the end of the path take the footpath on the right over a low wooden stile into a field. The footpath here is indistinct. - head towards the first pylon on the right of the racetrack at the other end of the field where there is low stile by the side of the Greet.

4. The footpath runs by the side of the Greet through two fields. Continue to follow the Greet past a hardstanding area by a small concrete farm bridge on your right over the river - Do not cross, no right of way). Continue to follow the river around a bend and cross over the wooden footbridge over the river and walk back along the other bank of the river towards Upton Mill.

5. Go over a low stile and keep the hedge on the left. You will see metal gate and to the right of it take the stile crossing diagonally into the next field. Cross over two stile through two small fields to join a metalled road.

6. Follow the road for about 200m and just before the pylons turn right down a wide bridleway which can be quite muddy. After about 500 m you will find a footpath off to the left towards Upton which is on the Trent Valley Way. Follow the footpath which keeps close to the hedge on the left, through two fields and then up to Upton Chuch. St Peter’s church, with its nine pinacled square tower and larger central pinacle, has its origins back in the 13th century. Cross the church yard again keeping an the left hand side to a small wooden gate leading to a paved footpath between two open wooden fences, A second gate leads to a short road taking you up to the main road in Upton (Southwell - Newark road) where you turn right. Over the otherside of the road you will see Upton Hall. Upton Hall (built c1830) is now the home of the British Horological Institute with a fine collection of time related exhibits. (Phone 01636 813795 for details of opening times).

7. Follow the road through the village, past a telephone box and a delightful thatched cottage (The old Post Office - now closed). After passing the French Horn inn, turn left down Carr Lane.

8. Turn right down the track over a small bridge. When the track peters out the footpath turns left and then immediately right to follow alongside the hedge and through a gap into the next field. Bear slightly left to the other side of the field to cross to the edge of the golf course which adjoins the racecourse.

9. At the golf course turn right until you meet the river Greet where you turn left to follow the path by the side of the Greet to Rolleston Mill, passing around to the left of the mill and on around the metalled road. Retrace your steps over the railway, turn left along the road and continue on past the Church.

10. After the church follow the road around the left hand bend (Rolleston Manor on your left) and then around a right hand bend to a T junction where there is a telephone box. Kate Greenaway, author and illustrator of Victorian childrens’ books spent most of her childhood in Rolleston.

11. Turn right and follow the road around a corner and take the first footpath on the right. After crossing fields the footpath goes along an elevated tree-lined path. Take the footpath over the small concrete bridge over two stile crossing in front of Fiskerton Mill. This is a tall four storey building. Turning left and then following the footpath back to the car park by the Trent.