John's 7½ mile walk starting near the church in Kneesall took thirteen members past Brickyard Plantation, over Hare Hill and on to pass by Kersall and head to Maplebeck for a coffee stop. We then headed north west towards Parkhill Plantation where we passed the memorial to a crashed Wellington bomber in WW2. Continuing towards Eakring, we passed close to the National Grid Training Centre before stopping for lunch at a playground in Eakring. After a morning in sunshine, rain came on the walk back to Kneesall after lunch.
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| John briefs the members |
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| Saint Bartholomew's, Kneesall |
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| Climbing Hare Hill on good tracks - the farmers having done a grand job, John |
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| Coffee stop near Maplebeck |
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| Looking at Lincoln Cathedral in the distance (allegedly) |
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| Memorial to RNAF crew of the Wellington bomber which crashed here in 1942 |
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| Nottingham Young Farmers Tractor Run See John Young's video at the bottom |
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| National Grid's new T-pylons were built here in 2015 for testing but have only recently (2023) been connected to the grid in Somerset. In January, however, National Grid abandoned plans to roll out new designs because of their high cost and noise complaints |
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| Lunch in Eakring, famous for its WW2 nodding donkeys |
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| Fields of lacy phacelia, used as a cover crop |
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| And then the threatened rain arrived |
