Southwell and Brackenhust, 1st March 2020

Elaine's planned walk from Southwell, recced umpteen times, had to be changed to avoid a suddenly-closed section of the Southwell Trail and the flooded path by the River Greet.  Eventually a way through was found and nineteen of us set off from near the Cathedral, through the town centre to Lower Kirklington Road to join the Trail just after the closed section.
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.

The start in the (free on Sunday) car park, Southwell

Passing the Maltings, Lower Kirklington Road

Strawberry Fields Forever, and ever - Norwood Park

A rather posh bug hotel seen in the grounds of Brackenhusrt College
Distant view of the Cathedral on the way back

Evidence of Romans

The Education Garden next to the Archbishop's Palace

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.
Caudwell's Mill on the site of Southwell's medieval Burgage Mill

Miss Canthus

River Greet in flood

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

Something that could be added to the route if we do it again, Southwell Workhouse

The final track (in green) and the recce route along the River Greet