Papplewick, 30th October 2016

We started Bernard's walk today on the Papplewick Trail before striding out through Papplewick Village and along the Robin Hood Way south of Ravenshead to Blidworth. From there we walked along Fountain Dale, scene of the encounter between Robin and Friar Tuck (allegedly) before returning through the grounds of Newstead Abbey.  Here are some photographs.

Scary! Well it is Halloween

Harris's Hawks - beautiful creatures, not often seen near Ravenshead

This is more like it

Carrots. And even more carrots

Improvements to Rainworth Water catchment area - and a good site for lunch

 From Robin Hood and the Curtal Friar.
The frier took Robin Hood on his back
Deep water he did bestride
And spake neither good word nor bad 
Till he came at the other side.

Thieves Wood

Autumn landscape

Papplewick Hall (1787)

Mortons Farm Tea Rooms - well worth a visit

Bank reinforcement on the River Leen

 

South of Newstead Abbey

Now there was some discussion about the distance walked - it was advertised as 12.5 miles. GPS data varied from 12.1 to 12.5 miles except for my new Garmin 35 device which read either 13.1 or 14.3 depending on which figure you read. Both are obviously too high and the explanation is interesting. Near the end of the walk at 15:00, we took afternoon tea and my old Garmin (purple line below) gave up the ghost and stopped recording. The new Garmin, with superior satellite location capabilities tried harder but got things hopelessly wrong and the errors built up until the difference was 900m.