A longer walk along lanes, through fields and farm yards, up bridle paths and tracks. The fields can be muddy in winter and some of the styles are a bit awkward to negotiate.

An extension and variation of the Tongue Lane and St. Anne's route this route takes in Fiddlers Bank and across the fields to Broad Lane.

The start of this route is the same as the Woods, Lake and Feeder route. It devaites from that route after about 5.3km by continuing across the dam and turning left to take the lake side path rather than turning right down the steps to follow the feeder. The Woods and Lake route completes a full circuit of the lake at the Wardens Tower, initially arrived at down through the farm land (2.4km mark) and then left by way of the woodland path back up through the woods (5.9km) to connect with the early part of the route from where we retrace our steps (1km and 7km points).  

The Grand Circle walk is a variation on our Woods, Lake and Feeder walk. The first half of the route is the same, but then at the far end of the Serpentine lake, rather than continuing with the lake side path we turn left and make our way up to the Greenway Bank visitors centre. We don't take the signposted route, but turn left immediately after turning at the end of the lake. We make our way past the reed beds and up the rough anti-errosion steps. The path passes through the courtyard of the visitors centre before crossing the road and continuing along the top of the ridge on the other side.

This is a short route with several variations. The track shows the standard route following the lane round Marshes Hill, right down Tongue Lane to the feeder at the bottom and then turning back, through the fields via the old track and up into the village emerging opposite the school and church. From there following the lane back to Hill Top, over Marshes Hill to the track and then back round the lane. 

One of our favourite walks which takes us down through the woods to the lake, skirts the lake and then heads out following the feeder for the Trent and Mersey canal and the young river Trent along the valley, before turning back for the climb back up to St. Anne's church following what we assume was an old road into the village but which is now little more than a track through a field used to graze cattle. After a steep climb out of the village we return over Marshes Hill, passing the trig point, crossing the common and then decending through the fields to complete the loop by Lion's Paw farm, before returning home, 500m further up the lane.