This walk has a number of busy roads, please take care when crossing these and use pedestrian crossings where possible.
Some of the pavements and paths are uneven in places - take care.
[1] From the car park, with your back to the doctor's surgery, turn right and walk to Astill Lodge Road. Turn left and walk to the end of the road.
[2] Turn left and immediately cross over Bennion Road at the pedestrian refuge and continue to the left for about 500m.
[3] Just after the first car park, opposite Redruth Road, turn right onto the public bridleway and continue to the Walkers security office at the end of Madeline Road. Keep on down Madeline Road to the traffic island.
[4] Turn right onto Beaumont Leys Lane and continue for about 200m or so to a pedestrian island where a blue sign 'Beaumont Shopping Centre 3/4' indicates a path on the right. This is narrow but is a cycleway, so take care.
[5] Turn right onto the footpath and follow it through past the end of Tollwell Road onto Leycroft Road.
[6] Turn right onto Leycroft Road and continue to its end, passing Walkers main entrance on the right (Bursom Road).
(A) Henry Walker started a butchers business in Leicester in the 1880s. He moved to Cheapside in Leicester in 1912 and eventually began making meat pies. This venture lasted until early 2012 when it's owners, Fife fine Foods entered administration. In 1948 the firm began making crisps by frying potato slices in a fish fryer. It introduced its first flavoured crisp, the cheese and onion variety, in 1954.
This modern Walkers site opened in the late 1980s and is one of the largest crisp production plants in the world, producing over 11 million bags of crisps per day and using about 800t of potatoes. Every day about 11 million people bite into one of the company's products, There are currently 14 varieties in production with many more one-offs for special occasions. The company is a subsidiary of the multi-national Pepsico headquartered in America.
[7] Turn right onto Bennion Road and after 250m cross over to Astill Lodge Road at the pedestrian refuge to return to the centre.