Start : Alfreton
(S/E) Start from the Market Place in Alfreton, walking down Derby Road (A61) to the Watchorn Church on the left.
(1) Turn left after this into Long Meadow Road, the site of the radical pub The Queen’s Head and take the footpath to the right which leads to the A38.
(2) Turn left here and walk on to a bridge across the A38, then turn right and follow the path back along the road before it turns left to go past the Motel and Fire Station.
(3) Coming out at a road cross to the left and pick up the footpath ahead going first to the right, then left, then left again, right, and left yet again as it goes through housing to reach the Swanwick – Leabrooks road.
(4) Cross the road and follow the footpath ahead, which goes up the hill to the Hilltop Mink Farm. Pass the farm on your right and take the footpath to Golden Valley, crossing the stile on the left and walking straight ahead down the hill towards the Midland Railway Centre.
(5) Going under two railway bridges and crossing a track pass the Britain Pit on the right and go ahead to leave the wood, cross the fields to Coach Road at Butterley Park Farm. Here you are in Butterley Park where farms were visited for men and weapons.
(6) Cross the road to take the footpath ahead behind the Toll Cottages. Walk down the hill, follow the footpath to the left and then quickly take the footpath to the right to climb up the field. Coming out at the path behind the Codnor Gate Industrial Estate turn left along this path.
(7) When the path splits, take the one to the right along the fence to come out a road. This is the Swanwick to
Codnor road through Golden Valley.
(8) Turn right to walk up the hill to Codnor Market Place (A) at the French Horn.
(9) From French Horn, follow the A610 (Nottingham Road) South-East out of Codnor, on the Woodlinkin bypass, to the turning to the right to Langley Mill.
(10) Pass through Aldercar, where houses and farms were visited for men and weapons, and continue on the road through Langley Mill to reach the Great Northern pub (called the Junction Navigation in 1817) next to the canal basin. Here the marchers also stopped for refreshment in 1817 and one marcher shot by accident.
(11) From the Great Northern pub return to the canal, crossing the bridge and go under the bridge by the canal to walk along the Erewash Canal.
(12) Cross the second canal bridge (No.26) and walk ahead to reach a bridge over the A610. Cross to continue on up the hill through Old Eastwood, with the Sun Inn ahead. The marchers also stopped at the Sun Inn.
(13) Turn right and follow the Nottingham Road through Eastwood, continuing on it through Hill Top and
Newthorpe and drop down the hill into Giltbrook. The marchers stopped to rest at the former Tanyard, now part of the IKEA site. Continue to the roundabout at the entrance to IKEA where the marchers are confronted by a body of soldiers at Giltbrook and fled. (S/E)
