tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80936485016735906962024-03-05T11:39:26.034-08:00Rutland Round - 2012aliqothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17772663423845861022noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093648501673590696.post-15514471708402612932012-09-29T07:08:00.004-07:002012-09-30T04:17:28.825-07:00An overview<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An overview of the entire route</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We began and ended at Braunston in Rutland and it took seven separate walks to cover the whole Round.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1. <a href="http://aliwalsrutlandround.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/day-1-braunston-in-rutland-to-uppingham.html" target="_blank">Braunston to Uppingham</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">2. <a href="http://aliwalsrutlandround.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/day-2-uppingham-seaton.html" target="_blank">Uppingham to Seaton</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">3.<a href="http://aliwalsrutlandround.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/day-3-seaton-to-barrowden-17-aug-2012.html" target="_blank"> Seaton to Barrowden</a> - a very short walk</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">4.<a href="http://aliwalsrutlandround.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/rutland-round-4-barrowden-to-normanton.html" target="_blank"> Barrowden to Normanton</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">5. <a href="http://aliwalsrutlandround.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/day-5-normanton-to-clipsham.html" target="_blank">Normanton to Clipsham</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">6. <a href="http://aliwalsrutlandround.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/day-6-clipsham-to-whissendine-7.html" target="_blank">Clipsham to Whissendine</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">7. <a href="http://aliwalsrutlandround.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/day-7-whissendine-to-braunston.html" target="_blank">Whissendine to Braunston</a>.</span>aliqothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17772663423845861022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093648501673590696.post-28775428535503178742012-09-28T09:32:00.002-07:002012-10-03T08:11:58.220-07:00Day 7 - Whissendine to Braunston<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #686868; font-family: 'lucida grande', arial, tahoma, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><i>With Marta. Started grey and drizzly, but after Langham (11 am) it cleared up for the rest of the day. Still some mud underfoot, views good. 11.7 miles approx. A few hilly bits.</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We set off from Whissendine around 9 30, and walked up past the church, turning right on to Foxhills, and following the road round as far as Number 21. The footpath runs alongside this house to a field, where we turned left. There's a gateway on to the the road, but the path turns right and follows the hedge for a short distance before joining the road at a stile. We turned right along the road as far as a left hand bend. At this point we continued straight ahead, on a bridleway leading to Langham.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">By now we were both wearing waterproofs as the drizzle persisted. The hedge was on our left for a while, but at the summit of the track it changed to being on our right. The views here are said to be excellent, but the mizzle made them a little hazy today. We used John Williams' book and the OS map and found the path without problem. At one or two points along the way the waymarks have faded or become overgrown.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">There is a junction of bridleways at the end of the field, and here we turned right, with the hedge on our left. In the next field the path goes over a stile after a gap in the hedge on the lef. We followed the path alongside a deep ditch on our left. We crossed a plank bridge and then turned right when a hedge blocked the way, turning left over a briidge in a short while cutting off the corner of a field before following the hedge and waymarkers to reach Manor Lane in Langham, via a stile.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We turned right then left into Orchard Road, then at the end of Orchard Road, right then left into Bridge Street. Just after the bridge we turned right before the Noel Arms. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Well, to be truthful we were delighted to be able to buy an early coffee in the pub - the landlord took pity on our drowned rat appearance.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">At the end of Church Street we crossed the main road, turned right for a short distance before taking the bridleway towards Braunston, which leads off to the left. The path climbs up hill following the left hand hedge and turning right to walk around the small wood near Mill Hill.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We had our lunch stop at the Castle Café in Oakham - a very good broccoli and stilton soup. It was still a little cool and damp for sitting out.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Outside the Castle Café, Oakham</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We left Oakham on the road towards Uppingham and Kettering.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Floral peacock</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Swooning Bridge, from where you could see the gallows at the top of the hill.</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Shortly after the bridge our path turned off to the left towards Egleton, crossing muddy fields which could have been a lot worse! Of course, since the 2000 edition of the booklet, and the publication of my OS map, the bypass has been built. It's on the newer maps, and doesn't complicate the route.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Through Egleton, we turned right along the road to the A 6003. We crossed over the road and then the railway line to a path which leads up hill with a hedge on the left.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> At the second gateway we cut across the field slightly, joining a track past Brooke Covert East. Soon after this the track bears right, but we took the route through a gate to the left. The path goes downhill over a small bridge and past Bridge Farm into Brooke. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Brooke Church</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We walked through Brooke, turning right at the junction. We passed some earthworks on our right, and a dovecote in the grounds of Brooke Priory - a house on the site of a 12th century priory.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Earthworks at Brooke</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">The dovecote</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ever seen the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">1970 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">film <i>Out of Towners? </i>Jack Lemmon stars as a guy from Ohio going for a job interview in NYC. His well-laid plans to indulge his wife with a room at the Waldorf and a gourmet meal the night before gang very aglae as fog closes the airport in New York and the plane diverts to Boston. And that's just the start of their woes.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I watched the film on Wednesday night, and felt I was living a, thankfully, tamer version on Friday. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We were going to walk about 11 miles, starting around 9.30. With luck we'd have a decent walk before the forecast rain began in the afternoon. Crossed wires - well misunderstood emails - screwed up our meeting point, but hey this happens, and luckily there was Benjamin Grosvenor playing the piano on Radio Three, so I wasn't fretting. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We eventually met up, and I was driving quite happily along a narrowish country road, when some nameless unknown character drove a little too close to me and with a flamboyant bang destroyed my offside wing mirror. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Hell - we needed some coffee now, so a change of plan took us into a convenient garden centre café. No problem and it was past 10 am, so I was up for my caffeine shot. The lack of a wing mirror was niggling though - it's quite possible to drive without it, but takes some getting used to. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Second change of plan - we headed to Oakham to see if anyone could fix it. As they couldn't we parked the car, kitted ourselves out in walking gear - boots, backpacks, maps dangling from our necks, the works. You can guess the next thing - the rain turned up on time and settled in for the day.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, a mile round Oakham, lunch and a return home. As we walked back to the car, someone smiled cheerfully and said, "Not much of a day for walking, is it?" Little did he know.</span><br />
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aliqothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17772663423845861022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093648501673590696.post-88243917925714988022012-09-08T13:47:00.001-07:002012-09-09T00:33:39.644-07:00Day 6 - Clipsham to Whissendine 7 September 2012<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #686868; font-family: 'lucida grande', arial, tahoma, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><i>With Marta. Fine, sunny, very warm. A few dry ploughed fields to cross. garmin fail between Teigh and part way to Whissendine - human error. About 13 miles in all.</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first part of this walk was a little uninspiring - along the road from Clipsham to Stretton, though we discovered that we could have walked a little further from the verge, too late for today. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The route lies across a large grassy field, and crosses a concrete track, then another bridge and field before joining a minor road.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">A very free range hen</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the road we turned right and walked up to the bend in the road, where a path goes to the right. At this point we had some difficulty, and lost the waymarks. When we came out at the road as the map route showed, we were still unsure, and diverted slightly to join another path which took us back to our route more easily. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soon after crossing the old flight path, we had a quick break, before following the route into Thistleton. John Williams's book and the waymarking helped make this straightforward.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">St Nicholas church, Thistleton</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From Thistleton, we took the road west towards Sewstern - and carried on until we reached the point known as Thistleton Gap, where Rutland meets Lincolnshire and Leicestershire.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From wikipedia:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">On 28 September 1811 a massive crowd of up to 20,000 watched a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare-knuckle_boxing" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Bare-knuckle boxing">prizefight</a> at Thistleton Gap. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cribb" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Tom Cribb">Tom Cribb</a> fought the American <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Molineaux" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;" title="Tom Molineaux">Tom Molineaux</a> in a hotly contested re-match for the heavyweight championship of England. The match was a matter of national pride and the names of both these men were famous throughout the land. The venue was chosen as the three counties of Rutland, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire met there and if the police arrived to halt the illegal fight the boxers and crowd could escape across the county boundary. In the eleventh round Cribb knocked out Molineaux. The original match, a year before, had ended in exhaustion for both men after a gruelling 33 rounds with accusations of cheating. During the intervening period both men had lost weight; Cribb because of extensive training with the famous Captain Barclay and Molineaux due to loss of muscle whilst earning his keep at local prizefighting venues.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thistleton#cite_note-6" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a></sup></span></span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shortly after the barns we had to cross another ploughed field, diagonally right to the corner of the hedge. After this it was a case of following the path and waymarks along field boundaries. With the hedge on our right we could see a house - Cribb's Lodge, which is reputed to be the training base for his bare-knuckle fights. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We continued with the hedge on our right, ignoring a path and stile on the right. We had to turn left then right with the field boundaries, joining a farm track just before a small industrial estate on our left. We carried on skirting some woodland, still with the hedge on our right. As we were on the south side of the hedge for most of the time, this was hot going, and the views weren't up to much for a while! We had another break when we found a suitably shady spot - at last.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Use the book and the OS maps here - much clearer than my description!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">The disused Oakham to Melton Canal</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As instructed we headed slightly to the right across the field to a gate in the right hand hedge. This led on to a track. When the track met the road, opposite Catmose Lodge, we turned left towards Teigh. (TEE?) but no tea :-(.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We walked past a road to the right signposted to Whissendine, then just after the Teigh sign we turned right into the village and on to the <a href="http://www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/teigh-church-holy-trinity/" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">imposing church</a>. It wasn't open at the time, so that'll be one for another day.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Holy Trinity church, Teigh</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The path leaves just over the road opposite the west end of the church. The waymarks are easy to follow here - there's even one on its own in the middle of the first field. We went quite close to an area of water and saw two herons flying from there. A footbridge and a stile, then a longish section with the hedge on our left was next, leading to this rather long thin footbridge:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Not quite a rope bridge over a chasm, but . . .</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After this we took the path diagonally right across a field and through a gateway in the opposite hedge. We emerged on to a bridleway, turned right and then crossed the Leicester-Peterborough railway line. You can see for a fair distance each side, and judging by the train which came along soon after we'd crossed, you can hear the trains coming.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">'Pill-box' remnant of World War 2 defences</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our path was along the bridleway for a good mile gradually uphill until it met the road to Whissendine. We turned left, and in a couple of hundred yards took a footpath to the right, over a stile.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We crossed the field to the stile opposite and came out near St Andrews Church in Whissendine.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://connect.garmin.com/activity/219835754" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Map and details</a></span></span>aliqothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17772663423845861022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093648501673590696.post-37809130598599392882012-08-31T14:48:00.002-07:002012-09-01T04:25:42.656-07:00Day 5 Normanton to Clipsham - 31 August 2012<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><i>With Marta. Fine, sunny, but cold to start with. Some mud underfoot. Luckily I remembered the way through Clipsham Quarry. Only other small problem was on the way to Tickencote where we missed a turn to the right, but were able to correct easily. Lunch at The Plough in Great Casterton. 14 miles including walk to Yew Tree Avenue.</i></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">An early morning shot before leaving one car here</td></tr>
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<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first two miles from Normanton Car Park on Rutland Water were very simple - follow the yellow brick road, well, the tarmac path, past the café, past Normanton church and the back entrance to the Normanton Park Hotel, and carry on across the dam. Blue sky, blue water, and a chilly north wind. A few cyclists, loads of sheep and the guys inflating those see-through balloons you can be strapped in to roll down the grassy slope behind the dam. </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead of going through the gate at the end of the dam path, we followed the field edge round, almost turning back on ourselves. We walked along the edge of the wooded area, and shortly after a couple of trig points, or similar objects, there was a stile on our left which led into a field. We spotted the Rutland Way signs for the first time today - and on the stile. </span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Ten out of ten for clarity!</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The signs were easy to follow from this point, leading over fields and through some woodland, until the path emerged into Nook Lane in Empingham. Nook Lane leads to the main A 606. We crossed over to walk past the White Horse pub and along the road through the village. The church was down a small road to the right as we walked straight on.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just after the end of the village, very soon after Mill Lane, the footpath goes away from the road, up through a short stretch of woodland - Chapel Spinney. A little further along the road after the turn there's a convenient bench for our first stop of the day - a little chilly in the shade, so we didn't linger longer than the few minutes needed to top up the caffeine level.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The path came out of the trees into sunshine and continued along the top edge of several fields. Empingham was now a cluster of houses and the church behind us. We passed a spinney on the right, and continued to follow the path. There may be a waymarker that we missed, but we fought our way thorugh an overgrown section and came out on the concrete path leading towards Tickencote Lodge Farm. We had just walked round the two sides of a triangle instead of the hypotenuse - give or take the accuracy of the right angles.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Tickencote Lodge Farm</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We turned right and walked down the track until we met the Rutland Round waymarker pointing back to where we should have walked. Close by was a stile into the next field of recently cut hay, which we crossed diagonally (just south of east) to the next yellow post just before another farm house. </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We followed the signs round the house and on to a small road north east for a short distance, before entering a couple of fields and walking in the same direction, the turning slightly to the right.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Tractor tedding hay near Tickencote</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We crossed another small road towards Tickencote Hall, and had to brave this signposted danger:</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Looking towards Tickencote Hall</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The path goes past<a href="http://www.robschurches.moonfruit.com/#/tickencote/4523002756" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> the church of St Peter</a>, which is small but impressive. It was restored at the end of the eighteenth century, but is considered a fine example of a Norman church.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">The vaulting</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">The chancel arch</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">The East End of the church</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We walked through the village to a sign and short section of path which crosses a field, then emerges on to a road near the OK Diner, then goes under the A1 and into Great Casterton. The Plough Inn is right on the route and provided an adequate, though not perfect lunch, with exceptionally friendly service from its new landlord. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chatter, imperfect map-reading and inattention to the book's instructions almost set us off on the wrong road after lunch - and all on fruit juice at that.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You need to walk along to the junction with the Pickworth road, and turn left past the primary school - or take the narrow lane between houses just before the school sign on the main road. In any case take the road out of Great Casterton past the school and walk along this for a good mile until you reach Mounts Lodge Farm. Opposite here a bridleway leads to the left - almost due west. The path was pretty muddy - puddle-dodging skills honed while you walk.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a few hundred yards, at the end of the first very big field, we turned right along a grassy track. We continued along this, ignoring any tracks to the right or left, and made our way more or less north towards Pickworth. The signing around here is pretty poor. Just opposite the point where the path meets the road is this medieval arch.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">The remains of a lime-kiln, where John Clare worked for a while as a lime-burner - photo 18.11.2011</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;">The lime-kiln is also on private land, and almost invisible in the summer.</span></span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We turned left along the road, and walked past the first footpath sign near Manor Farm, and past the limekiln, to find the path we needed, which goes off to the right at a bend in the road. Time for another coffee-break, before tackling the remaining three or four miles.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Clipsham Quarry 24 Nov 2011</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The path from the quarry towards Clipsham provided a few earlyish blackberries today. No problems following the route from here as for most of the way it runs between hedges, and the village is clearly visible. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://connect.garmin.com/activity/217129621" style="color: #f48d1d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Map and details</a></span>aliqothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17772663423845861022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093648501673590696.post-43390070054368846122012-08-23T13:13:00.000-07:002012-08-24T14:11:30.598-07:00Day 4 - Barrowden to Normanton - 22 August 2012<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #686868; font-family: 'lucida grande', arial, tahoma, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><i>With Marta. Fine day, with a slightly chill wind. Sun mostly, a few spots of rain. Underfoot good. Lunch at Ketton, Northcliffe Arms. Just over 11 miles in all.</i></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Leaving Barrowden </td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We set off from Barrowden, with an unaccustomedly chill wind today. Walked through the village to the road towards Wakerley until we found the footpath going off to the left. We walked with the hedge on our left through three fields, then when the path meets a bend in the river we went through a stile and along above the river for another three fields before entering Welland Spinney.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The path is clearly marked. When you come out of the spinney it is usually easier to follow the edge of the field, rather than cut the corner as the official path does. Turn left and right following the field boundary, then carry on, ignoring paths to the right, including the one to Tixover Church, which stands in splendid isolation away from the village. The key to the church is available at Manor Farm - there is a large sign nearby. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Bridge and old mill at Duddington, seen from the path</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just before the bridge the path turns to the left - it is both Rutland Round and Jurassic Way for some distance here. We walked this <a href="http://aliwalks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/jurassic-way-10-fineshade-stamford.html" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">on 25 July 2012</a>. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The blue paint - anti-vandal paint perhaps - is still on the gate, as before, and still sticky, but this time the gate was open, so we had no contact! We followed the path over a large field with sheep, and up to a stile into a strip of woodland. While we were walking we heard a green woodpecker, then saw it fly and land on a nearby telegraph pole. There were a couple of herons across the river, and a red kite. We chose to have a break at about the same spot as last time, but today, instead of seeking shade, we looked for somewhere out of the wind. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next we crossed the playing field - or so marked on the map. The path goes straight across the middle of the field, and emerges on to the road near Tixover Grange. Just after the drive the path leaves the road on the left hand side, and cuts diagonally over a field, cutting the corner off the road. The route continues directly opposite and there is about a mile of perfectly straight walking along the edge of arable fields. Near Kilthorpe Grange it has been slightly re-routed, but is clear and easy to follow. It continues along a narrow path with fencing from large gardens on the left, and trees on the right, until it meets the Collyweston to Ketton Road. At this point the Rutland Round diverges from the Jurassic Way again, so instead of turning downhill we carried on into Geeston and Ketton. Signs for the Hereward Way are also good for the R.R.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The old surgery - there's a convenient bench just across the road</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">You can just see the signal</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">The word Ketton was removed pre-world war II, in case of invasion</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a little trouble working out the way just after this section, but with a bit of map work and aligning the cement works with our position we sorted ourselves out before we'd gone off track. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We turned off the Hereward Way to go to the left past New Wood Lodge and made our way to the road. It was straight over the crossroads, and in about 200 yards we turned right. This road took us directly past Normanton village - we didn't take the turning to the right, but carried straight on. We went past Oak Tree Farm, and Rutland Water was visible ahead of us. When we reached the main road we crossed over and turned left into the car park.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://connect.garmin.com/activity/213659664" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Map and details</a>aliqothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17772663423845861022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093648501673590696.post-68481486319954330122012-08-17T23:04:00.003-07:002012-08-23T23:43:47.235-07:00Day 3 - Seaton to Barrowden 17 Aug 2012<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #686868; font-family: 'lucida grande', arial, tahoma, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><i>4 miles almost. With Marta - a late start because of uncertain weather. Lunch in Barrowden - Exeter Arms.</i></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of those showery days with possible thunder forecast. Seemed like a good idea for a much shorter leg than usual.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From here the path was clearly marked across fields and up the hill to the A47. It emerges opposite a minor road into Morcott. We had to cross the A47. The path goes to the right from the road opposite, soon after the junction. We veered to far to the left as we approached the village, misled by a fance that looked like a gate. If we'd consulted John Williams's <i>Rutland Round </i>book (pub CPRE), we would have done this:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once we were back on track, we went past the White Horse Inn, and crossed the road to steps to a footpath into the field opposite. The path took us diagonally tot he left, then through a small wood back to the A47. We had to cross this again, and take the road into Barrowden. The windmill is on the right hand side of the road.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We reached Barrowden and had lunch at the Exeter Arms - our plan to sit outside was scuppered by the rain.</span><br />
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<a href="http://connect.garmin.com/activity/211573465" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Map and details</a>aliqothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17772663423845861022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093648501673590696.post-80734360177130168532012-08-11T15:04:00.002-07:002012-08-12T02:18:20.994-07:00Day 2 - Uppingham - Seaton<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>With Marta. Walked on Wednesday 8 August 2012. 10 miles in warm dry weather, though the path near Eyebrook Reservoir was muddy. Lunch at Lyddington.</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We set off from Uppingham, walking along the Stockerston Road out of the town and taking this footpath to the right. It starts from a sort of lay-by on a bend in the road.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The path is clearly marked as it goes through the fields and along the ridge, past a building marked on the map as a meteorological station, and along to Kings Hill Lodge farm, where it turns left to join the Stockerston Road again.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The path continues round the wood, with the occasional waymarker. A footpath crossed our route and led into the wood - ignore this one. The track turns left, then in while right keeping to the high ground, eventually coming out by Manor Farm at the top of the hill in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoke_Dry" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Stoke Dry</a>. Here we turned right and walked downhill to the church.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">St Andrews church, <a href="http://www.achurchnearyou.com/stoke-dry-st-andrew/" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Stoke Dry </a> with the window to the priest's room over the porch</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Steps up to the parvise or priest's room -rumours about conspirators of the gunpowder plot using the room seem to be without foundation, and the story that a local witch was imprisoned and starved in here are also unconfirmed. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Martyrdom of St Edmund. The painting shows men wearing feather headdresses shooting bows and arrows, and has been taken to support the theory that the Vikings discovered North America two centuries before Columbus.</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more discussion of this see<a href="http://www.paintedchurch.org/stokeded.htm" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> this article</a>. </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the church we walked down the hill and took the footpath to the left just before the entrance to the woodland around Eyebrook reservoir. The path hugs the fence, and was pretty muddy on this occasion. </span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Snack break by the water</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the entrance gate to the Eyebrook area the path heads diagonally up hill through a field. There are great views of the water to the west from the gate in the opposite corner, and Stoke Dry can be seen in the distance to the north west.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Looking back towards Eye Brook Reservoir</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Stoke Dry church behind us</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">The reservoir again</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The route now takes us down to the A6003. We managed to miss a slight turn to the left at the top of this section, but our mistake soon became obvious.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the road we turned right - the verge is fairly wide, and the road walk is only for a couple of hundred yards. </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The path turns left at the tarmac road to a gas pressure control station on the other side of the road. A stile took us on to the path - mud again just here, and cows who did little more than lazily raise their heads and watch us. </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We followed the yellow-painted post waymarkers over stiles and fields. There's a footbride into another field, which we crossed diagonally. After whiles and stiles we headed fro the farm buildings, and followed the waymarks to reach the road and turned left into Lyddington. Lovely lunch in the Old White Hart's garden before setting off on the final couple of miles.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Art in Lyddington</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We crossed the village green and followed the track to a stile. The path goes along the left-hand hedge and leads to a gateway on the left. In this field are the traces of the fishponds which were once used by the bishop's palace (the Bede House).</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">The medieval fishponds of Lyddington</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">One of mine</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The path goes through the gateway and into a narrow field. We walked along this and over another stile. Then we turned right and followed the path straight up the hill. We continued to the end of field, then turned right and almost immediately left, walking with a ditch on the left and continuing until we reached the farm track by Grange farm. This leads up the hill and into Seaton, with glimpses of the Welland Valley viaduct to the right.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://connect.garmin.com/activity/208113961" target="_blank">Map and details</a></span>aliqothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17772663423845861022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8093648501673590696.post-1814096426660436312012-08-03T00:04:00.001-07:002012-08-07T04:05:11.211-07:00Day 1 - Braunston-in-Rutland to Uppingham<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Walked on Wednesday 1 August 2012, with Marta. 8.5 miles. Dry, warm - cloudy. Muddy in the woods. Quite hilly.</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The CPRE's book on the Rutland Round is easy to follow, though we made sure we had a map as well.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We started from Braunston church, with its large clock and the sheela-na-gig.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We walked along Wood Lane opposite the church and followed the road out of the village. At a left hand bend in the road, our path carried on into a lane. Just past the farm buildings the footpath turns to the left crossing straight over the field and down to the hedge. It crosses a small stream, then goes across another field to the corner of Prior's Coppice. It follows the western edge of the coppice, going south. As we reached the road at the south western end of the wood, we looked back to a stretch of water.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Looking back from the end of Prior's Coppice</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We crossed the track and went south along the left of the hedge. At the field boundary there are a few trees, then the path goes diagonally downhill towards Leigh Lodge. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Marta. The way marks point to the way we have come.</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We walked past the magnificent Leigh Lodge, keeping it on our right, as we followed the tarmac track downhill to the right.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">An orchard of fruit trees in training - look at the wall at the back</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The track climbs uphill for about a mile until it meets a stony track by some farm buildings. Here we turned left, and in about 50 yards turned right down a rough bridleway. This was quite uneven and muddy, but eventually turned into a tarmac road leading into Belton-in-Rutland. We had to climb a short section before arriving in the village.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">The bridleway<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10px; text-align: center;">Belton church.</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We came out of Belton, past the village green with its lime tree, and took the footpath soon afterwards. This goes to the left, through a gate, then right through another one immediately after it. it crosses the field to the far right hand corner, where there is a stile. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then you walk along by the hedge on your left, and cross the stream by a small bridge. Walk parallel to the hedge on the right to the next stile. Keep the hedge on your right when you cross the bridleway. There is a short step downhill section, and a bridge, then the path goes up to a stile. Through the hedge you join the old A47, the Leicester Road. Turn left then right to walk to the present road. Cross with care - there is a traffic island in the middle of the road opposite the bus stop. Across the A47 is the road into Wardley, a small village with a tiny church and a few houses.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the bend in the road near the church we turned right along a track which goes behind a big house, then south through the hedge, turns left (west for a short distance before heading south east towards Wardley Wood. The path turns right, left, right left (marked and clear) before entering the wood at its south western point. From there the path goes uphill through the wood - very muddy at the moment, but it would be a great place to walk on a hot sunny day, with plenty of shade. We carried on in this direction, following way marks through the main wood and between two smaller sections of trees until the path crosses a couple of fields and a stream. The way marks are not always obvious, but the path climbs up hill to the old Leicester Road, slightly south</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of its junction with the A47. From here it's about a mile along this road into Uppingham. We had a jacket potato lunch at the Crown pub.</span><br />
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