Exton and Greetham, 25th May 205

Angela's 7½ mile walk started in The Green in Exton and took eighteen of us along the Viking Way up to Greetham for coffee near Jacob's Well.  We then followed the North Brook on its way to join the Rivers Gwash and Welland, through the Greetham Valley Golf Course and past the Fort Henry Lakes before turning west and heading back to Exton.

The start on The Green ...

... near the Fox & Hounds (temporarily closed)

Exton is most famous for its walking dragline in the nearby Exton Park Quarry, the 1400-tonne Sundew, built in the late 1950s and at the time the largest machine of its kind in the world.  Sundew rose to fame when it undertook a 21km trip to a new quarry near Corby in 1974. The whole trip took three months at a speed of 0.16km per hour and came to be known as the Great Walk

One of many fine buildings in Exton, name not known

Old Pump House in Exton, a Grade II Listed Building at the junction of the High Street and Top Street

Setting out on fine, dry tracks and footpaths

ALL YE WHO HITHER COME TO DRINK

REST NOT YOUR THOUGHTS BELOW

REMEMBER JACOBS WELL AND THINK

WHENCE “LIVING WATERS” FLOW

Crossing North Brook in Greetham

The Wheatsheaf, Greetham - lunch stop on a previous walk

The Old Mill on North Brook

Heading down the river valley

Lunch stop opposite Fort Henry in Exton Park.  The building is a pleasure-house built in 1788 in the Gothick style

Heading back to Exton