Queniborough, Gaddesby, Barsby and South Croxton, 15th March 2026

Starting at St Mary's Church in Queniborough, Paul took ten members on an 8-mile walk to Gaddesby for a brief coffee stop and then on through Barsby to St John the Baptist's Church in South Croxton for lunch.  The route made use of surprisingly good field paths alongside  Queniborough Brook and Gaddesby Brook, two streams which eventually join the River Wreake.

The start in Queniborough

Queniborough Dovecote, built in 1705 but relocated and rebuilt in 1988 when it threatened to fall down

Inside the dovecote

Coffee stop at the Cheney Arms

Second crossing of Gaddesby Brook

Fine brickwork in Barsby

Lunch - St John the Baptist, South Croxton

Wait for me!

South Croxton - celebrating the Queen's Golden Jubilee, 2002

A stile too far.  Tweny four stiles today - a record

Spring flowers back in Queniborough

Fine memorial in churchyard to Lance Corporal Eugene Benjamin Thomas Weldon 4850605 1st Bn. Leicestershire Regiment, shot and killed in Castlereagh in 1921

Nottingham to Radcliffe Waterways, 8th March 2026

John led ten members on a 7.4 mile walk from the bus stop near  Nottingham Railway Station along the canal to Trent Bridge for a coffee stop.  We then followed the Trent past the City Ground but were forced towards Lady Bay to avoid the groundworks associated with the new Waterside Bridge.

We returned to the Trent and followed it to Holme Pierrepont Watersports Centre for lunch next to the canoe slalom course before moving on past Holme Pierrepont Hall to catch the bus in Radcliffe.

The start near the Nottingham and Beeston Canal

Tinkers Leen

Fake news!

Canal meets the Trent after leaving it at Beeston Lock

Trent Bridge - coffee stop

Notts Area Ramblers are planning some sort of event here on the day the bridge opens later this year - watch this space

Waterside Bridge, from Lady Bay to .....

Holme Pierrepont Country Park

Lunch stop above the canoe slalom course

Holme Pierepont Hall

Access denied - the end of the Cotgrave to Radcliffe Greenway.  

This track was recorded on a Garmin device every 10m and also using the OS app on a smartphone at 1 second intervals for comparison. 
Garmin: waypoints = 1290; distance = 7.4 miles
Smartphone OS app: waypoints = 12,000; distance = 7.8 miles
Smartpnone track uploaded to OS on laptop: waypoints = 906; distance = 7.6 miles

This is a map of the first part of the walk.  Refections of the gps signal from the high buildings on both sides of the canal, the so-called canyon effect, degrades the accuracy of the GPS

Hoveringham, Dover Beck and Gunthorpe, 1st March 2026

 Angela's 4.3 mile walk took ten members from the Trentside car park at Hoveringham along the river before turning towards Hoveringham and the fishing lakes in the old quarry.  After reaching the Dover Beck at Hoveringham Mill, we followed it to Caythorpe where flooding prevented us taking the planned route to Gunthorpe and forced us back to the Trent.

Leaving the car park on Hoveringham Road next to the flooded river

Crossing one of the many drainage channels

Hoveringham Cricket Pavilion

Crosssing Dover Beck

Hoveringham Mill, one of eleven on the Dover Beck: Salterford Mill, Oxton Mill, Epperstone Mill, Woodborough Mill, The Paper Mill, Carby’s Mill, Parkinson’s Pit, The Lord’s Mill, Cliff Mill, Hoveringham Mill and Caythorpe Mill

Following Dover Beck towards Caythorpe Road

Caythorpe Mill (1745)

Debris from the Trent when it last breached its banks in February