Rab's walk took us from the Village Hall in Ticknall to Foremarke Hall, east to Anchor Cave and Ingleby, with fine views of the Trent, and back to Ticknall through Robin Wood.
Foremarke Hall, a Georgian-Palladian country house and manor house. Completed in 1762, the hall is the current home of the Repton Preparatory School |
Coffee stop near Foremarke Hall |
Anchor Church, a series of caves in sandstone adjacent to the Trent, thought to have been the cell of an Anchorite hermit, St Hardulph, who lived and prayed here in the 7th century |
Inside Anchor Church |
Fine view of the Willington cooling towers across the Trent |
Ticknall Tramway, 1802 - 1915
Part of a 12.5 mile network of horse drawn tramways, designed and built by Benjamin Outram, linking Ticknall with the Ashby Canal
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