Starting in the car park at Whisby Nature Reserve, Scott took 12 members on a flat, 7-mile walk through Thorpe on the Hill Village; across fields to Stocking Wood and Housham Wood; through the hamlet of Morton and into Tunman Wood. Then we hacked our way along a path by the side of the Nottingham to Lincoln railway to reach the old Station House and, after re-entering the Nature Reserve, we walked round Thorpe Lake to the cafe for represhments.
On the way back, some of us were fortunate to meet up with a small group being given a guided tour of the On Freedom's Wings structure, a life-size model of a Lancaster bomber. It was unveiled in September 2025 next to the A46 in Norton Disney near RAF Swinderby, a former RAF Bomber Command station. It was erected by the Bomber County Gateway Trust, formed with the object of designing, procuring, constructing and installing an iconic landmark art installation on the county border of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.
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| Scott's briefing |
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| Distant view of Lincoln Cathedral |
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| Let the train take the train ... |
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| ... instead of hacking your way by the track |
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| Thorpe Lake, one of several, flooded former gravel pits making up the park |
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| Lancaster Bomber sculpture |
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| Custom-built memorial seats honoring the airmen who lost their lives when their plane crashed near RAF Swinderby in September 1942 |
