We are Hinckley Ramblers. We open the way for everyone in our local community to enjoy the pleasures of walking.
10th Battalion Memorial car park
Twyford road
Burrough on the Hill.
LE14 2QS.
The walk starts at 10 am sharp from the Memorial car park.
The walk starts at 10 am sharp from the Memorial car park.
The length of the walk is 13.5 miles.
The walk takes us to various places relating to the 10th Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, during the nine months the Battalion spent in High Leicestershire from December 1943 to September 1944.
The 10th was billeted in the villages of Somerby, Thorpe Satchville and
Burrough on the hill.
The pub stop is at the Stilton Cheese, Somerby.
The length of the walk is 13.5 miles.
We will meet people at the start of the walk, at the Memorial car park.
The 10th Battalion fought in the Battle of Arnhem as part of the 4th Parachute Brigade during Operation Market Garden. Before their leave towards the Battlefield, the Battalion was based in Somerby and held exercises in the Somerby Area. On 18 September 1944 585 men, led by Lt. Col. Kenneth Smythe, jumped into Battle at Ginkel Heath near Ede. On 19 September the Battalion was ordered to withdraw and to help defend the Oosterbeek Perimeter. In the night of 25/26 September 1944 the 1st Airborne Division was evacuated across the river Rhine. On 30 September of that year only 36 men returned to Somerby. In the following months they were joined by another 40 men. The rest were killed, wounded, missing or had become POW.
10th Battalion Memorial car park Twyford road Burrough on the Hill. LE14 2QS.
