Roger's 9-mile walk started in Walton on the Wolds and took us along tracks and across fields to Burton and then through Prestwold Park to St James's Church for coffee. Then it was across the A60 at Hoton and down to King's Brook before lunch overlooking the new Stanford Hall Rehabilitation Centre.Incidentally, the village sign features a sheep, for the traditional local agriculture, the timber framed house known as Kings Cote and a winged man. The latter is the Rev. Bertie Bird, incumbent of the parish between 1894 and 1942, who was an amateur photographer, and created trick pictures of himself flying.
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| Start, outside The Anchor Inn, Walton |
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| Prestwold Hall, for many years the seat of the Packe family and now a wedding venue |
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| Coffee stop at St Andrew's, a Grade II medieval parish church near Prestwold Hall |
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| Interesting Sunday School in Hoton, probably associated with the nearby Church of St Leonard which was built in 1834 by the Packe family of Prestwold |
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| Distant view of the recently opened Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Stanford Hall |
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| Last leg(s). It wasn't like this two weeks ago! |
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| A diversion through the grounds of St Mary's Church, Walton |
