We started with sixteen on Scott's 8½ mile walk from Farnsfield first to the Halifax Bomber Memorial and then through Coombs Wood to Robin Hood Hill for coffee. Dropping down to Greaves Lane we gradually lost members until just seven completed the full circuit to join six others at St Giles' Church, Edingley for lunch. A short walk through the mud to took us to the Southwell Trail and back to Farnsfield.
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| St Michael's Church, Farnsfield, an alternative starting point |
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| A family of (very clean) llamas |
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| Group at the Halifax Bomber Memorial |
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| The Halifax was returning to its base at Burn near Selby in Yorkshire after completing its 2nd mission of the day to bomb the V1 Rocket launch site at Croix-Dalle in France. It was seen on fire passing over Nottingham and crashed near this spot at 10.25 pm on 6th July 1944. The memorial was established on the 50th anniversary in 1994. |
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| A web-site dedicated to the work of the Farnsfield memorial trust, and the crew of LK-U MZ519 can be found here: http://www.farnsfieldbomber.org.uk/. It contains many photographs, history and directions on how to find it |
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| Heading towards Coombs Hill Wood |
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| Heavy going in Coombs Hill Wood |
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| View towards Mansfield from Robin Hood Hill |
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| Greaves Lane |
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| St Giles' Church, lunch |
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| Farnsfield pumping station, viewed from the Southwell Trail, was opened in 1898 to extract underground water to supply Newark. It is one of several steam-powered pumping stations opened in this part of Nottinghamshire around that time to extract water from the large aquifer below. Steam pumping continued well into the 1960's when the site was converted to use electrical pumps. Up to 2014, water was still extracted from the site which is now managed by Severn Trent |
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| The full route in orange and the drier route along Greaves Lane in green |
