Shipley Country Park - Post Lockdown - Part 02
w/e 25 April 2021
All of this week's
pictures were taken with a Kodak DX6490
We left the garden at Derby Lodge and walked up the
hill towards the site of the old Shipley Hall.
We did not go to the Hall site but continued along Coach Road
by the Suffragette Wall towards Nottingham Lodge.
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Nearing Nottingham Lodge we bore left onto Dog Kennel Lane but
then immediately turned left again to follow an unmade track
down to the fields.
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Various paths have been mown into the grass and we followed the
one diagonally across the fields back towards Osborne's Pond,
meeting only a few dog walkers on the way.
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The path led through a number of gaps in the hedges at the field
boundaries.
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Over to the right we could see the cricket ground but it was
not as close as it looks here as this shot made use of the zoom
facility on the camera.
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Eventually under a clear blue sky the fence running along Shipley
Lane came into view.
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The path brought us out onto Shipley Lane right at the corner
of Osborne's Pond.
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And at that corner a swan was sitting on a nest among the reeds.
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We walked along Shipley Lane to the overflow channel out of Osborne's
Pond and then turned left to follow a path at the side of it.
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The Nutbrook Trail runs along this side of the pond but the path
we followed was at a lower level between the Trail and the water
which periodically gave views across to the feeding area close
to where we had started the walk. We made our way out of the
Country Park hoping to make more similar trips as the lockdown
restrictions ease even further.
Click
here to see a Route Map of the walk
Back to Part 01
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