Bramcote - Country
and Town
w/e 31 August
2003
The first part of the walk
can be seen in Bramcote
- Town and Country.
The footpath
we were following eventually reaches a track where a right turn
leads us through two fields still golden at this time of year
as they await the harvest. For the duration of our walk the sky
was cloud covered, the air was humid and the temperature very
warm but later in the day the cloud cleared and we were left
with blue skies. We'll try and time our walk better next time.
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After negotiating
a stile in the corner of the second field, our route crossed
a bridge over the A52, one of the main arterial routes into Nottingham.
The contrast between this main road and the lane we walked down
after crossing the bridge could hardly be greater.
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The lane eventually
widens and returns to a residential area. It is called Baulk
Lane and a right turn at the end takes us towards the Sherwin
Arms roundabout and the older part of the village again.
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To return to our starting
point we must now cross the busy A52. A short walk up the incline
on the far side and a right turn at the building with the tower
on the corner (inset) brings us back to Church Street.
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The Bramcote Memorial
Hall stands about half way along.
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And our walk ends outside the
church of St Michael and All Angels. The church was consecrated
in 1861 after being built on a site donated by John Sherwin Gregory
when the original village church, probably called St Luke's,
on the site of the "Sunken Church" proved to be too small.
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