[1] From the Queen's Head walk north along Main Street. Follow it around zig zags to find a prominent Leicestershire Round signpost pointing left up a small road by Home Farmhouse. Follow this short road, then the enclosed path at the end of it and go ahead down a drive to a road.
Cross straight over and take the path opposite. Go half right and go through two gates in the right hand hedge. Turn left, keep just left of a clump of trees that surround a small pond and go ahead to a wide hedge gap.
Now leaving the Leicestershire Round, which goes off to the left, keep straight on to a gate in the far right corner that leads onto a road. Take the fenced in path opposite and follow it to a playing field. Keep straight ahead down the right edge to find another enclosed path in the corner. Follow this, ignoring all turnings off right into the houses. It eventually goes across a small field then along an alley to reach a road on the edge of Fleckney village.
[2] Go right then almost immediately left along a bridleway. Pass garages on the left and enter a second field where waymarks indicate the paths fork. Head slightly left uphill to find a stile by a rusty white gate in the top corner. Cross the stile and go ahead with the fence on your right to reach a gravel track. Turn left along this and follow it to where it ends. Keep straight ahead across a small area littered with rubble and bricks, then keep parallel to the hedge and trees on your right to the next field corner. Head straight across the middle of the next field to a yellow post in the far hedge where a stile leads onto a gravel track.
Turn left for about 10 paces until you are level with three large trees at the bottom of the field. Turn right and go down across the field to pass through a gap between the rightmost two of these trees. Keep straight ahead up the track beyond along the right edge of two fields. In the next field go half left across the middle. Once over the brow of a small slope you will see a pond in the middle of the field. Pass just to the right of this and on to a stile in the far left corner that leads onto a road. Turn right to a T-Junction. Take the path opposite which goes across a small field then along an enclosed path and a drive to arrive on the road by a lovely thatched cottage in Arnesby.
[3] Turn left, and then right along Oak Lane, then right up to a T-Junction. Find a bridleway starting just right of a large sign which says, "The Mill". Follow this along the left edge of a field then turn left and cross the drive to the mill right next to some large metal gates. Go ahead across the right edge of a lawn to reach a field.
(A) The windmill, a tower mill built in 1815, is a grade II listed building. It was heavily restored around 1976 and is now part of an interesting looking house.
The path now crosses a large network of small fields. Happily it is well waymarked, well walked and easy to follow. Keep following the yellow marker posts and waymark arrows across a number of fields. Apart from a couple of minor doglegs, the path is pretty straight as it heads due west. Eventually you will be walking along the right edge of some large fields, and finding you are heading straight towards the church spire in front of you. Cross a footbridge over a stream and go up to a road. Turn right, go left round a bend and follow the road uphill. Opposite a right turn, take a path on the left that leads to the church. Just in front of the church turn right on a grassy path that leads to the main street through the village of Peatling Magna.
(B) Peatling Magna church is a beautiful old building. Sadly, it is not always open to look inside. If you feel it is time for a coffee break there are some nice benches with pleasant views in the churchyard behind the church.
Doctor Johnson, who is famous for his dictionary, married a lady called Tettie, who was born here. He described her as a woman of "good understanding and great sensibility, but inclined to be satirical." She was 20 years older than him but they were very much in love, and he missed her terribly after she died.
[4] Now on the Leicestershire Round, which you will be following all the way back to Saddington, turn left and follow the road down to a cross roads. Immediately beyond, a gate on the left leads into a small scrubby field. Cross this to a concrete bridge leading into a larger field. Go straight across this field to a gate in the far hedge, and keep straight ahead across two more similar fields. Continue straight ahead in the next field and pick up a stream coming in from the right and follow it ahead to a double stile. Continue straight ahead along the right edge of three more fields. Go up to the top left corner of the next field, left over another stile then on to the far right corner of the next field where a stile leads onto a road.
[5] Turn right along Bruntingthorpe's Main Street. Keep following it round to the left, then when it swings right again, turn left down Little End. Ignore a right turn and follow this road to its end. Cross a stile just right of double gates. On a clear day there are extensive views left to the high ground of Charnwood Forest. Follow the track beyond across one field then along the left edge of another to reach a black corrugated iron barn.
The track ends here but the path carries straight on along the left edge of the next field then goes half right down another field towards trees. Cross a stile which is immediately followed by a gate, then go right down to a footbridge with gates at each end. Cross it and go left uphill to the top right corner of the field. Follow the left edge of three more fields to reach a road.
[6] Turn left through Shearsby village, ignore the first right turn then swing right downhill to a cross roads. Keep straight ahead on the road signed "Leicester 9 1/2" and follow this to a T Junction. Cross and turn left along the verge for nearly 100 metres to a stile on the right by large green security gates. Follow the enclosed path past barns then keep straight ahead down a narrow field to a gap. Cross the stile in the wire fence and go right to the far left corner of the field. Go straight ahead across the next field then right across the corner of the next to cross a footbridge. Go half left to the top corner of the following field.
In the next field, it is tempting to go straight ahead along the small ridge in front of you, but you need to go half right, and continuously up and down across ridges and furrows, that were left behind by medieval ploughing, to reach a kissing gate. Keep to the right edge of the following two fields to reach a road. Turn right to a T Junction.
[7] Take the bridleway opposite. It goes straight ahead along the right edge of a number of fields. Eventually, the hedge on the right turns right. Continue straight ahead across another field now with the hedge on your left. On entering the next field, go ahead a short distance and you will recognise the gap on your right you came down through early in the walk. You will now be retracing your steps back to the start. Turn right through the gap, pass the pond on your left and continue up to find the gate in the hedge on your right. Go left to reach the gate onto the road. Go up the drive opposite and go right of the brick pile back onto the enclosed path and the short road back to Main Street. Turn right back to the Queen's Head.