A good turnout (thirty) for Marion's walk starting in the centre of Radcliffe on Trent.
The walk took us down Holme Lane to Holme Pierrepont ...
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| Holme Pierrepont Hall |
... and then into Skylarks Nature Reserve, an attractive wetland nature reserve, formerly a gravel pit but now owned by Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust.
Crossing the A52 we walked across fields to Bassingfield and onto the Grantham Canal ...
... and into Cotgrave ...
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| All Saints Church, Cotgrave |
.. before lunch in ...
... based on the site of Cotgrave Colliery (1962-1994).
Rejoining the canal, we crossed at the restored Cotgrave Lock (Lock 6) ...
... to join the 3km disused railway line which runs between Cotgrave Country Park and Holme Pierrepont. The
former mineral railway, which used to link the colliery in
Cotgrave to the main railway network,
is currently used informally by walkers but there are plans to upgrade it in the future.
Then it was back to the start across fields and through the new plantation on the edge of Radcliffe.
