Starting at The Green Man in Ropsley, Phil's walk took us to Scotland (actually just a Lincolnshire hamlet) and across remote countryside and arable fields to Great Humby, the former seat of the Brownlow family until they built and moved to Belton House. There remains a tiny chapel, dating from 1754. Nearby Little Humby has old stone houses flanking a green and a Manor House dated 1631.
Ropsley was the birthplace of Bishop Richard Foxe (1448 1528) who founded Grantham grammar school where Isaac Newton was a scholar. His birthplace is marked by a plaque on a former inn close to the Green Man.
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| Start in Ropsley |
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| Ingoldsby Wood |
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| Chapel at Great Humby |
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| Little Humby |
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| Start and end - The Green Man |
