John's flat walk today (highest point 22m, lowest 2m) started at All Saints Church, Sutton on the Trent before crossing fields to Low Marnham and Grassthorpe returning down the Trent past several holmes. The word has a Scandinavian origin and means an island in a river or lake. It also came to mean a low flat tract of land beside a river. As they were liable to flooding these fields were not used for food crops but as extra pasture and for growing hay.
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| All Saints Church |
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| Grassholme Beck a lesser-known but important tributary of the Trent draining a large part of east Nottinghamshire |
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| St Wilfrid's Church, Low Marnham |
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| Self-closing clapper gates, unique to the navigable reaches of the River Trent |
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| After lunch by the Trent |
