Sixteen (and a dog) on Steve's walk today starting in Waltham on the Wolds and heading west to visit the ironstone villages of Chadwell, Scalford and Goadby Marwood.
The route followed the Mowbray Way through Chadwell in mixed weather, sunshine and hail, blue skies and not so blue skies ...
... to Scalford parish church for coffee.
The church, built about 1100 AD is named after St Egelwin and is believed to be the only one in the country named after this saint.
The name Scalford shows there was once a ford here (obviously). There is still an underground stream nearby which is now channelled to a tap by the road called The Spout.
Most of the villages round here are made from local ironstone, as are many of the churches, a fine example of which is the church of St Denys in Goadby Marwood, built around 1280.
