Saturday Walk 3rd January – medium to hard category – c 7.3 miles, circular walk from the Mistal cafe on the Chevin

The walk will start from the Mistal café car park on the left-hand side as you descend the Chevin on East Chevin Road at 9:00am.  NOTE: we have been allocated just 3 parking spaces as they have an event on this date.

We’ll turn left out of the Mistal car park and walk down and through the public car park on the other side of the road to pick up the little path by the side of the road. We’ll come out on the East Chevin Road and carefully cross it to head up the path at the side of the house. This takes us up to Surprise View. We’ll continue past there and into the woods where eventually we emerge into a field where we can see the York Gate Road. We cross York Gate and pick up another path which heads down towards an old quarry, we’ll turn left along another good path and come out past Upcroft Farm. We’ll head down Carlton Lane a little way and then pick up another path which will bring us out in West Carlton. We cross Carlton Lane again and take Mall Lane up towards the Chevin Lodge Hotel. We’ll wander through their grounds (York Gate Plantation) and come out on York Gate again. We cut across a couple of fields and descend to East Chevin Road, which we’ll cross and walk down along the pavement until we pick up a path into the Chevin Forest park. We’ll do a decent loop in here before emerging back at The Mistal in time for lunch.