Restarting the Autumn Walks Programme, updated 26th November 2020

26th November 2020 - extract from Ramblers website

Ramblers group walks: Currently suspended. Covid-secure walks can restart from Wednesday 2 December – our walks are exempt from the ‘rule of six’ in all local restriction tiers. Please check with your local group to find out what walks are taking place.

All of the East Midlands is in Tier 3 so we will be restarting walks on Sunday 6th December.

Waltham, Scalford and Chadwell, 1st November 2020

Steve D led nine ramblers, unrestricted by Tier 3 rules, on a 5.5 walk from Waltham Village Hall.  The walk crossed fields north to the village of Chadwell and then turned west towards Scalford. Coffee was taken sitting on the timber ruins of an old barn. The walk then swung south towards Waltham. The weather remained fine but the ground was muddy due to the recent rains. The AGM could not be held as planned in the village hall due to COVID restrictions and proceeded via a video conference.

Waltham Village Hall

Our Country Cousins

Captions invited

Part of the route --- possibly

Barnstone and Langar, 1st November 2020

Brenda led this 4-mile walk around Barnstone and Langar, avoiding the mud on the route Jan planned at short notice to supplement the AGM walk from Waltham.  The route explored both the industrial and bucolic parts of the village before an excursion beside the old filled in limestone quarries to Langar for coffee.  Then back in time for the AGM by video conference.

Barnstone Automatic Flare System, designed to burn off the gases from the closed landfill site and monitor the 1000 deg C exhaust - a more high-tech installation than you might think

Barnstone Cement Works - still going strong afer 156 years

John takes his break somewhere at St Andrew's Church, Langar ...

... whilst the rest of us do the same with less extreme social distancing