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Dist:0.1km<br/>The Mowbray Way is an 8 mile marked footpath from Scalford to Buckminster between the Jubilee Way and the Viking Way.
©Andrew Tatlow
Dist:0.1km<br/>This long distance footpath goes through the tiny hamlet of Chadwell. A glimpse of the Leicestershire countryside over the stile.
©Kate Jewell
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©Andrew Tatlow
Dist:0.2km<br/>A couple of farms, a few houses and the church make up this hamlet tucked away from the larger villages in this area.
©Kate Jewell
Dist:0.3km<br/>View across the fields from Chadwell churchyard.
©John Sutton
Dist:0.3km<br/>In the Leicestershire Buildings of England Nikolaus Pevsner described the font as "Norman, circular, of tub shape, with intersected, beaded arches in a strip on the lower part of the bowl; the arches have gone wrong in one place in size and positioning."
©John Sutton
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©John Sutton
Dist:0.3km<br/>North side, showing the three-bay arcade, filled in when the north aisle was demolished (cf Colston Bassett).
©John Sutton
Dist:0.3km<br/>Small ironstone church. The tower has three bells in the key of B flat but reputedly unringable. The largest bell weighs 6.75cwt.
©Kate Jewell
Dist:0.4km<br/>Limestone and brick overbridge crossing the remains of the Scalford to Eaton Branch at Chadwell. The line was in use until the 1960s carrying ironstone from the quarries at Eaton.
©John Sutton
Dist:0.5km<br/>The lane to Chadwell crosses the bridge; the one to Wycombe and Scalford is on the right. The GNR branch served the ironstone quarries around Eaton from the 1880s until 1963.
©John Sutton
Dist:0.5km<br/>The road to Chadwell crosses the former railway to various ironstone quarries.
©Andrew Tatlow
Dist:0.5km<br/>Chadwell is a very small village with no through roads.
©Andrew Tatlow
Dist:0.6km<br/>Cycle Route 64 on top of one of the wolds ridges running north-east of Melton Mowbray.
©Tim Heaton
Dist:0.8km<br/>Turn right at the junction in the distance to reach the village of Chadwell.
©Andrew Tatlow

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