Eleven VBR members plus a visitor from Newark on Maggie's 9½ mile walk from Launde Abbey, across the valley of the River Chater to Braunston in Rutland and back. Along farm and field tracks in undulating countryside with excellent views.
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| Launde Abbey is an Elizabethan manor house, originally built on the site of an Augustinian priory. The building is used as a conference and retreat centre by the Church of England dioceses of Leicester and Peterborough |
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| Coffee on a bridge over the River Chater which joins the Welland near Stamford |
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| All Saints Church, Braunston in Rutland |
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| The Braunston Goddess leaning against the wall at the back of the church - this strange, carved stone figure is thought to represent a grotesque female form |
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| Views over Leicestershire and Rutland |
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| Water stop - one of many |
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| Almost back ... |
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| .. and back |
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| 9.5 miles |
