An excellent turnout (28?) for this morning walk starting at Bramcote Hills Park and making use of the Robin Hood Way, the Nottingham Canal and the Erewash Valley Trail to reach Strelley.
The walk took us first to the Hemlock Stone, a rock pillar thought to be what's left of a quarry on the the flanks of nearby Stapleford Hill.
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| Nottingham Canal Local Nature Trail - "shooting, angling and hunting with birds of prey" prohibited |
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| The 12-mile Erewash Canal, built in 1779, starts at Trentlock and ends at Langley Mill where it joins both the Nottingham and Cromford Canals. It was used mainly for transporting coal |
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| Coffee stop at Hallam Fields Lock, one of fifteen on the Erewash |
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| Crossing the River Erewash back into Nottinghamshire from Derbyshire |
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| Nottingham Canal on the return trip |
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| Looking north from Bramcote Hill |
