Then we passed through Norwood Park to eventually reach Brackenhurst College, home to over a thousand students from Nottingham Trent University's School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences, before dropping down to Southwell.
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| The start in the (free on Sunday) car park, Southwell |
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| Passing the Maltings, Lower Kirklington Road |
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| Strawberry Fields Forever, and ever - Norwood Park |
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| A rather posh bug hotel seen in the grounds of Brackenhusrt College |
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| Distant view of the Cathedral on the way back |
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| Evidence of Romans |
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| The Education Garden next to the Archbishop's Palace |
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| Southwell Cathedral |
And this is what you missed - a muddy track by the River Greet, hundreds of acres of miscanthus and two mills on the river.
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| Caudwell's Mill on the site of Southwell's medieval Burgage Mill |
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| Miss Canthus |
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| River Greet in flood |
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| Maythorne Mill (1785) on the River Greet, a cotton mill which later became a silk mill and operated until the middle of the 20th century |
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| Something that could be added to the route if we do it again, Southwell Workhouse |
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| The final track (in green) and the recce route along the River Greet |














