Sue's 6.1 mile morning walk, starting at the Fosse Bridge car park near the old A46, took fifteen VBR members and four guests along the canal for a few hundred yards before leaving it to cross fields to reach Stragglethorpe Road. This was followed as far as Colliers Way which we joined to enter the Country Park. After a coffee stop, an excursion and a short climb took us up to Windmill Hill (51m) to view the landscape towards Nottingham before we dropped back down to the canal to follow it back to the start.
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| Heading off towards Foss Bridge under the old A46 |
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| Maythorn and cow parsley in abundance |
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| Entering the Country Park |
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| Dragonfly Lake |
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| Cotgrave Country Park is on the site of Cotgrave Colliery which was planned as a show colliery for British Coal. It closed in 1993 due to unsuspected geological faults |
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| Restored lock in the Country Park |
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| Windmill Hill |
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| Return across Lock 11 of the Grantham Canal to the Fosse Bridge car park |
