Hoby, Rotherby, Rearsby and Ratcliffe, 19th September 2021

Maggie and Glen's walk, a repeat of a mid-week walk in 2020, took twenty seven VBR members and five guests from Gedling up and down the Wreake Valley from The Blue Bell Inn in Hoby to follow the Leicestershire round to Rearsby for coffee.  The group split with eighteen returning to Hoby via Rotherby whilst the others continued down the Wreake to Ratcliffe returning to Rearsby for lunch and then to Rotherby and Hoby.

The start outside the Blue Bell

Old mill house on the Wreake

Packhorse Bridge over Rearsby Brook. The original wooden bridge would have been medieval, but was replaced in 1714 by the one we can see today

Coffee stop for all the group in Rearsby and lunch stop later for some

Rearsby Mill

Entrance to Ratcliffe Water Mill

Maize

Brooksby Hall, a late 16th century manor house

All Saints Church Rotherby - rest stop

Waterhouse Bridge

This beautiful brick bridge was built in 1794 by the Melton Mowbray Navigation Company as part of work to make the River Weake navigable from Syston, where it joins the Leicester Navigation, to Melton Mowbray where it linked with the Oakham Canal

Leicestershire Round in green