 | Eight VBR members just avoided a cloudburst to enjoy Howard's 4.7 mile stroll starting in Lambley in what turned out to be perfect conditions for a walk. |  |
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| The start at the Village Hall car park in Lambley |
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| Garden on the banks of Lambley Top Dumble |
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| Fine views and excellent paths north of Lambley |
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| Newly created bund and drain in the corner of a field above Lambley Bottom Dumble designed to slow the water entering Cocker Beck as part of the £5m Lowdham flood defence scheme |
Today's walk started near the playing fields in Caythorpe before passing St Vincent's Church and following the edge of the Lincoln Cliff to Hough on the Hill and Gelston with good views over the Vale of Belvoir and the Trent Valley. After coffee in Gelston, Elaine led half the group (11) on the short route back to Hough and Caythorpe whilst the others joined the Viking Way to Carlton Scroop for lunch at the church. The quiet road back to Hough was an escape route to avoid the triffid-like pea crop in the fields to the north and then we followed the short-walkers' route back to Frieston and Caythorpe.
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| Our leader explains the need to concentrate on where you put your feet and not look at your smartphones all the time |
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| Elaine tries to catch the attention of the group after Mike welcomes everyone to Caythorpe |
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| St Vincent's Church, Caythorpe |
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| Fine ironstone cottage in Hough on the Hill |
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| Unusual Saxon tower at the Church of All Saints, Hough |
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| The Brownlow Arms, a 17th century country inn in Hough - an alternative start-point for the walk |
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| Looking down from the Lincoln Cliff across the Trent Valley. The Lincoln Cliff runs for over 50 miles from the Leicestershire border near Grantham to the Humber Estuary, and is broken only twice by river gaps at Ancaster and Lincoln |
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| Fine carvings on bench near Gelston |
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| Coffee stop on The Green in Gelston |
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| Medieval limestone cross dating from the 15th century |
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| Separating the sheep (short walkers) from the goats (long walkers) in the pinfold |
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| St Nicolas' Church, Carlton Scroop. The God's Acre sign refers to the fact that churchyard is a sanctuary for wildlife and has been managed by The Lincolnshire Trust for its botanical diversity since 1996 |
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| GPS in action. Look (carefully), no hands! |
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| The Beacon, Caythorpe church in the distance |
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| Approaching Caythorpe |
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Susie led twelve of us on this seven-mile walk in very hot conditions from Ab Kettleby to Wartnaby, Saxelbye and Grimston.
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| St Michael and All Angels Church, Wartnaby |
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| Old cottage in Saxelbye |
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| Green man in Saxelbye |
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| Lunch on The Green at Grimston |
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| St John the Baptist, Grimston |
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| Popular glamping site between Grimston and Wartnaby |
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Fourteen on Angela's 4.9 mile stroll from the Skylarks Nature Reserve car park on Adbolten Lane to the far end of the Holme Pierrepont rowing lake, into the Meadows Nature Reserve and then round the lakes of the Skylarks Nature Reserve.
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| Approaching the end of the rowing lake |
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| Rowing lake overflow |
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| Suspiciously blue refelection of a white sky |
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| Warsop Mill and Bridge (1765) - view from The Carrs |
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| Near the start - St Peter and St Paul's Church |
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| Water meadows next to the River Poulter |
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| Cuckney Primary School, once a mill on the Poulter |
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| St Mary's Church, Norton Cuckney |
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| Cuckney Water Meadows - commissioned by the 4th Duke of Portland in 1849 to provide hay for lifestock in winter |
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| Coffee stop |
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| Lodge on the edge of the Welbeck Estate |
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| Memorial to Lord George Bentinck near the Great Lake |
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| One of the several solar farms nearby with the new OS symbol |
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| River Maun on the way back to Church Warsop |
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| Railway to the now closed Welbeck Colliery. A future cycle track perhaps? |
