Angela's 8¼ mile walk started outside the Fox and Hounds on The Green in Exton and took twenty one of us on field paths and tracks to Empingham and then on to Rutland Water for lunch, returning through the village of Whitwell.
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| The start in Exton |
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| Exton is most famous for its walking dragline in the nearby Exton Park Quarry, the 1400-tonne Sundew, built in the late 1950s and at the time the largest machine of its kind in the world. Sundew rose to fame when it undertook a 21km trip to a new quarry near Corby in 1974. The whole trip took three months at a speed of 0.16km per hour and came to be known as the Great Walk |
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| Setting off down Blacksmiths Lane |
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| One of many fields of crops .... |
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| ... oilseed rape, wheat, linseed and wild flowers |
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| Taking a breather |
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| Empingham Dovecote |
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| St Peter's Church, Empingham |
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| Approaching Rutland Water for lunch |
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| Rutland Water's new Aquatic centre |
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| St Michael and All Angels Church, Whitwell and a local celebrity (yours for £99, a saving of 99p, from Discount Garden Statues) |
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| Looking back at Whitwell Village |
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| Before and after |
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| And a welcome drink at the Fox and Hounds |
