Staunton Harold Ridgeway

'Was opened on 28th September 1994 as a permissive path linking with the public footpath to Melbourne ... The hamlet of Staunton Harold, a dozen houses in all, nestles in a corner of north west Leicestershire, close to the Derbyshire border. For five hundred years it was at the core of the Staunton Harold Estate, and the hall was home to the Shirley family, who became Earls Ferrers ... There are 13 stiles along the route that have been specially designed, bearing incised lettering. Stiles 1 and 13 bear a monogram “J B” and the date 1994. Following the route from South to North stiles 2-12 have parts of a quotation from Hilaire Belloc, then North to South an exhortation by John Blunt, the originator ...'