Brackenhurst and Westhorpe Evening Stroll, 11th June 2025

Howard's 5-mile Evening Stroll started in the NTU Brackenhust Campus car park and took ten members along the Robin Hood Way, over Cundy Hill and then to the village of Westhorpe.  After crossing Westhorpe Dumble, we turned west into landscape dominated by solar panels and newly planted screening trees before returning along Cotmoor Lane to the start.  A pleasant stroll on good tracks in fine weather.

Thanks Bill for the photos.

Brackenhust College - the start

Distant view of Southwell Minster from Cundy Hill

Heading down to Westhorpe

Crossing Westhorpe Dumble

RWE's 50MW Cotmoor Solar Farm comprises the West Southwell Solar Array (shown here) and the Halloughton Solar Array.  It covers 210 acres and its 132 thousand individual solar panels can provide electricity for 12 thousand homes.

Thousands of Oak, Beech, Birch and Hawthorne trees have been planted to screen the arrays

Buttercups

Sunset