	Leicestershire Round (website) Price: £5 This 100 mile circular walk around the county encompasses many delights the Leicestershire countryside has to offer. The guide book has been arranged in sections, focusing on villages as stopping points. This means the route can easily be completed as a series of shorter walks, and of course is very handy when needing waterholes and resting places.
	Ivanhoe Way (website) Free The Ivanhoe Way is a 35 mile walk around the north west of the county. The route is split up into 7 short sections, therefore making it easy to walk as a series of short strolls. As 4.5 miles of the route links with Section 10 of the Leicestershire Round, you can say you have walked both!
	Jubilee Way (pdf document 3mb) Free (printed leaflet currently not available) The Jubilee Way opened in 1977; to mark The Queen's Silver Jubilee. This walk totalling 20 miles starts at Burrough Hill in the south, (linking with the Leicestershire Round) and travels north to beyond Belvoir (where it meets the Viking Way). In addition to the bold yellow topped waymarker posts, the way is marked with the special Jubilee Way symbol.
	Midshires Way (website) Price for whole pack: £3.50 (This includes walks in 5 counties) Free leaflet for just the main Leicestershire section. Since its opening in 1994, The Midshire's Way has become a popular long distance walking and riding route stretching some 225 miles across Middle England. From South to North, it crosses 5 counties: Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Leicestershire, Nottingham, Derbyshire, and the Peak District National Park, before reaching the Pennines near Stockport. The Leicestershire section runs from the Northants boundary via Cranoe, Tugby, Tilton on the Hill, Ashby Folville, Brooksby, Shoby and Old Dalby to the Notts boundary.

Ordering leaflets and further information

A selection of these leaflets are stocked by Leicestershire Tourist Information Centres, Libraries and County Council Service Shops. Alternatively, you can obtain them directly from the County Council by:

Sending a large SAE to Community Services Dept, Room 700, County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RJ
or Telephone: 0116 305 8160
or Fax: 0116 305 7965
or email: footpaths@leics.gov.uk

For leaflets carrying a charge, please send a cheque payable to "Leicestershire County Council".

Other Long distance walking routes in Leicestershire

Not Waymarked	Charnwood Round (not available online) A challenge walk around the ancient Charnwood Forest which lies on high ground to the north-west of Leicester. The full route is 33 miles, but several options allow a shorter distance circuit. The route is through peaceful countryside, once quarried by Romans, settled by monks, criss-crossed with paths and full of interesting relics of the past. The map-guide was published by Cordee in 1994. The Cordee website suggests it is still available at £2.95 (+ P&P) or contact Cordee Limited, 11 Jacknell Road, Dodwells Bridge Industrial Estate, Hinckley, LE10 3BS. Tel: 01455 611185.
Follow Viking Way signs	E2 Atlantic - Mediterranean (not available online) European walking route E2 is a 3030 mile (4850km) long-distance footpath that runs from Galway in Ireland to France's Mediterranean coast, via Scotland, England, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. It is one of a network of European long-distance paths. The E2 is made up of sections of existing paths, and is generally only waymarked in its own right at major junctions. In England there are two alternatives routes; the eastern one includes the whole route of the Viking Way (see below). Some additional information is available on the website of the Ramblers Association.
	Jurassic Way northern section leaflet (pdf document 10.5mb) The Jurassic Way briefly enters Leicestershire at Bringhurst in the far south east of the county. The Jurassic Way long-distance footpath connects Banbury in Oxfordshire with Stamford in Lincolnshire. For most of its 88 mile (142 km) route it follows the Northamptonshire Uplands, the Jurassic limestone ridge that forms the northern spine of that county. Leaflets for the other sections of the Jurassic Way are available on the web page for promoted Rights of Way routes from Northamptonshire County Council
	Macmillan Way (website) The fully waymarked main Macmillan Way is 290 miles in length runs from Boston on the Lincolnshire coast to the Dorset coast at Abbotsbury. It is called the Macmillan Way because all funds raised are donated to Macmillan Cancer Support. A short section of the Macmillan Way runs through the south east of Leicestershire via Hallaton a part of which briefly overlaps with the Leicestershire Round.
	Viking Way (website) The Viking Way is a long distance footpath from the River Humber, through Lincolnshire and past Rutland Water to Oakham, a total of 235km (147 miles). Southwards from near Belvoir Castle, the route is along the border between Lincolnshire and Leicestershire, following the Sewstern Drift, an ancient trackway which forms much of the boundary between the two counties. The Viking Way was first established in 1976 and the route is way-marked throughout its length with the Viking helmet symbol. The guidebook for the Viking Way is no longer in print but all the sections of this are now available on the website of Lincolnshire County Council.