Queniborough, Gaddesby, Barsby and South Croxton, 15th March 2026


Starting at St Mary's Church in Queniborough, Paul took ten members on an 8-mile walk to Gaddesby for a brief coffee stop and then on through Barsby to St John the Baptist's Church in South Croxton for lunch.  The route made use of surprisingly good field paths alongside  Queniborough Brook and Gaddesby Brook, two streams which eventually join the River Wreake.


The start in Queniborough
Queniborough Dovecote, built in 1705 but relocated and rebuilt in 1988 when it threatened to fall down

Inside the dovecote

Coffee stop at the Cheney Arms

Second crossing of Gaddesby Brook

Fine brickwork in Barsby

Lunch - St John the Baptist, South Croxton

Wait for me!

South Croxton - celebrating the Queen's Golden Jubilee, 2002

A stile too far.  Tweny four stiles today - a record

Spring flowers back in Queniborough

Fine memorial in churchyard to Lance Corporal Eugene Benjamin Thomas Weldon 4850605 1st Bn. Leicestershire Regiment, shot and killed in Castlereagh in 1921