Radcliffe on Trent and Shelford, 31st October 2021

 

Radcliffe Railway Station eastbound platform wall
Mosiac created by children at Radcliffe on Trent junior school and artwork created by
fine art students from the South Nottinghamshire Academy.  The work was commissioned by the Poacher Line Community Rail Partnership and East Midlands Railway

On a very soggy morning, starting at Radcliffe station, Marion took eleven hardy souls along the Radcliffe on Trent Cliff Walk and the Trent flood defences to Shelford church for coffee, returning in much improved weather on footpaths across fields to Rockley Memorial Park and down Shelford Road.

Briefing at the station

River Trent, looking upstream

Radcliffe Cliff Walk - part of the Trent Valley Way from Radcliffe to Shelford

Trent flood embankment, Stoke Bardolphe in the distance

St Peter and St Paul's Church, Shelford - coffee stop

Rockley Memorial Park