Steve led 14 ramblers on an 7 mile walk. It was a very hot day with temperatures over 30C. Everyone became very hot despite the cooling breeze in the open.
The walk took us on good field paths from Waltham to the small village of Chadwell where we stopped for a hydration break at St Mary’s Church. Continuing across fields on the Mowbray Way we passed the Wycomb trig point (141m elevation) and then down into Scalford where we took another break at St Egelwin's Church (the only church dedicated to this saint in the whole UK).
From Scalford we walked along the Jubilee Way up to Goadby Marwood for a lunch stop at St Denys' Church. The final section of the walk passed through fields of horses and without any issues to finish back at Waltham Village Hall.
Thanks Steve for the photos and description.
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| Waltham Village Hall |
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| Steve briefs us at the start |
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| Heading out on parched fields |
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| St Mary’s Church, Chadwell, one of a group of seven Anglican churches in north-east Leicestershire known as the Ironstone Villages family of churches - Chadwell, Eastwell, Eaton, Goadby Marwood, Scalford, Stonesby and Waltham on the Wolds |
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| Hydration break in Chadwell |
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| Our leader in Chadwell |
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| St Egelwins, Scalford |
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| St Denys' Church, Goadby Marwood - lunch stop |
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| Well spotted in the churchyard - a Vale of Belvoir Angel. This gravestone is a distinctive type of 17th to 18th-century memorial found in churchyards throughout the Vale of Belvoir. The characteristic feature is the carved angel at the top, representing the soul being escorted to heaven. These stones are generally made from Swithland slate and date principally from about 1690 to 1759. |
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| Goadby Marwood Hall, a seventeenth-century Grade II* listed house just behind the church |
