Hose, Hickling and the Grantham Canal, 5th September 2021

 

Glen and Maggie led twenty four ramblers on an 8.2 mile walk across fields to Hickling.  After a cloudy start the sun came out and the temperature rose. Coffee was taken in a field near Hickling and lunch at a swing bridge on the Grantham Canal.

The start near St Michael and All Angels Church, Hose

St Michael and All Angels

An erratic (or two)?

Coffee stop near Hickling

Glen leads

Hickling Basin

Restored Hickling lengthsman's hut on the canal towpath.  A lengthsman had responsibility for maintaining his ‘length’ of the canal

Not swinging on the bridge today - too tired

Family of swans on the towpath

And back to Hose
Diversion from the canal needed at the (very low) Bridge 37 due to an access dispute.  See map below