Glen and Maggie led twenty four ramblers on an 8.2 mile walk across fields to Hickling. After a cloudy start the sun came out and the temperature rose. Coffee was taken in a field near Hickling and lunch at a swing bridge on the Grantham Canal.
The start near St Michael and All Angels Church, Hose |
St Michael and All Angels |
An erratic (or two)? |
Coffee stop near Hickling |
Glen leads |
Hickling Basin |
Restored Hickling lengthsman's hut on the canal towpath. A lengthsman had responsibility for maintaining his ‘length’ of the canal |
Not swinging on the bridge today - too tired |
Family of swans on the towpath |
And back to Hose |
Diversion from the canal needed at the (very low) Bridge 37 due to an access dispute. See map below |