Muskham Vale Walking
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Muskham Vale Walking
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A meeting just before COVID proposed organising some "no cars involved" walks, either starting in the village or catching a bus from Muskham to somewhere else, and then walking back home, so that we could take as long as we needed to get back.
In fact most of our walks stay on our local public footpaths, and a jokey name for the group, the 'Muskham Secateurs', was prompted by the overgrown vegetation on many of these paths. Just email jgray.muskham@gmail.com if you want to be on the mailing list for notification of walks.
For the NCC record of local paths, click North Muskham or Bathley. Or, in the legend of the map here, you can select a layer showing all the PROWs in neighbouring villages.
The map here opens centred on the 'Muskham Loops' ambition to have a series of walking routes: an inner loop would cater for parishioners who have little time and/or limited mobility but are keen to be outside, with outer loops that lead out to the open country between our two parishes. The village's great riverside routes are, of course, part of the plan.
Right now we're extra-keen to understand how our use of our ROWs is likely to be affected by the proposed Solar & Biodiversity Park? You can activate the Solar Panels layer in the map to see where there might be pluses and minuses.
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Some Enjoyable NM60+ Walks
Some Enjoyable NM60+ Walks
Thursday 13th July 2023 - Chat Walk for First Time since NCC Diversion
Thursday 13th July 2023 - Chat Walk for First Time since NCC Diversion
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A group of 6 of us followed the recently announced Notts CC diversion of footpaths NM1/BT8, which has been welcomed by North Muskham PC (and me). We were really lucky with the weather, both the day before and the day after it rained heavily, but it was warm and sunny for our walk. Highlighted by this year's well-cleared footpath, and visible from Google Earth, a gravel lens remnant of the Trent's geological past has been revealed, and we spent some time poking about in its exotic stone collection. What a lovely bit of countryside Muskham Vale is!
Tuesday 13th September 2022 - Bus to Cromwell, walk Cromwell-MRCC
Tuesday 13th September 2022 - Bus to Cromwell, walk Cromwell-MRCC
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A group of 5 of us followed the planned 13th September walk, meeting up on the 339 bus that left MRCC/School at 10.05am, and a couple of minutes later from The Grange, and arrived at Cromwell a few minutes after that. The route (marked blue on map below) was 4.3 miles, with about equal road and off-road walking, a little bit of a climb, giving nice views (dry clear weather) across the Trent valley, with Lincoln Cathedral (and, as one of the group spotted, the huge hangars at Waddington) visible on the skyline. As expected, we needed to do a fair amount of secateuring between arriving at Sunnybrook Farm and the FB footbridge to east of Manor Farm - but if you fancy doing the walk yourself now, you'll find it well cleared!
Thursday 9th June 2022 - A1 Bridge meet, Exploring NCC Proposals
Thursday 9th June 2022 - A1 Bridge meet, Exploring NCC Proposals
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On Thursday 9th June 2022 a group of local 60+ residents walked the diversion route Network Rail posted when, in March 2020 and without consultation, they closed the footpath crossing the railway line. The photo below shows the 4 super secateur snappers who walked the A-B-C -D-E sections of the route shown in the accompanying map, and then followed E-G-H-I to get back to Muskham. This restarted the "no car walks" plans made just weeks before the COVID lockdown stopped everything.
Thursday 28th June 2022 - A1 Bridge meet, Bathley Paths to MRCC
Thursday 28th June 2022 - A1 Bridge meet, Bathley Paths to MRCC
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Perfect walking weather for the group of 7 locals who followed (at a leisurely pace) the 6km route shown below. I think participants enjoyed the walk, I certainly did, despite my 'incident' when the 'footbridge' turned out to be quite narrow underneath dangerously overgrown vegetation which obscured the 'bridge's' edges. I slipped and went feet first into the dyke up to my chest and just couldn't get out, I had to be pulled out by one of the stronger group members. I made light of it of course, but it was a shock, and if I'd been on my own it could have been serious - later reported by email to countryside.access@nottscc.gov.uk And, I'm pleased to report, well cleared very promptly (picture immediately below).
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