Vale of Belvoir Ramblers: June 2017

Langar, 25th June 2017

Dave C led fourteen ramblers on this ecclesiastical walk from St Andrew's Church in Langar to two churches in Colston Bassett and back for Lunch In the Garden at Brenda's in Barnstone.

St Andrew's Church, Langar

St John's Church, Colston Bassett was erected in 1892. A local legend claims a boulder lying in the churchyard is a meteorite, but it has been identified as cinnabar (the common ore of mercury) probably from Peru.

Colston Hall - a Grade 2 listed buiding dating back to 1704

St Mary's Church, Colston Bassett stands prominently on a site known to originate from Norman times

Recent addition to the landscape, Langar Solar Park, owned by Nottingham Community Energy

Linseed field - a pleasant change from rape

Lunch in the Garden - thanks again Brenda for laying on this splendid annual feast

Chatsworth, 18th June 2017

John J's walk today started at Calton Lees car park and took eleven of us west to Calton Houses and up through New Piece Wood before descending through Edensdor to Queen Mary's Tower near the river. The route then took us across the deer park to the Jubilee Rock before a short scramble up onto Dobb Edge which we followed to The Hunting Tower for lunch.

Emerging from the woods behind Chatsworth House, we crossed open moorland before dropping down above Beeley Brook to the village for a well deserved drink at the Devonshire Arms on a very, very hot day.

Calton Houses - recently refurbished

Chatsworth House and Hunting Tower

River Derwent next to Chatsworth House

Queen Mary's Tower

Jubilee Rock commemorating Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee

Scramble up Dobb Edge

Longstone Edge behind Baslow

Distant view of Three Ships and Nelson's Monument on Birchen Edge

Hunting Tower - lunch

Waterfall above Chatsworth Cascade

Looking towards Beeley Moor

Path in plantation above Beeley Brook

River Derwent again

Cropwell Bishop, 13th June 2017

Brenda led twenty one VBR members and guests on this pleasant 5 mile stroll from St Giles' Church, Cropwell Bishop, south to Blue Hill, along the canal to the lock near the A46 and back via the outskirts of Cropwell Butler.

St Giles' Church

Grantham Canal lock

Nettleham, 11th June 2017

Bernard led ten walkers on this flat walk around arable land passing through Dunholme, Scothern and Sudbrooke Park.

Here are Paul's photographs.

The start in Nettleham

Nettleham Beck

Still in Nettleham

Elevenses at Dunholme

Lunch at Village Hall in Scothern

Sudbrooke Millennium Stone, a Jurassic aged sandstone boulder transported from the Lincolnshire Wolds more than 300,000 years ago by a massive ice-sheet

John Young on Radio Belvoir

John Young, our Chairman, was interviewed on Radio Belvoir's Mid Morning Show on Tuesday to plug the VBR and Ramblers and walking in general. Radio Belvoir is based in the heart of the Vale, providing great music and talk-based shows to listeners from all over the globe. Just click on this link http://radiobelvoir.co.uk/ to find out more about our local radio station and listen on-line.

John with Ray Woodcock

John described all our activities: walks, social events, weekends away and strolls and paid tribute to the all the volunteers and members who keep the group functioning.