Scrooby and Ranskill

Another local walk today so that I could get an early start before the weather got too hot.

I travelled on the Retford bus to Scrooby, the first village in Nottinghamshire, and then headed southeast to Mattersey Grange and then the road going back east to Ranskill.

The level crossing at Scrooby is now pernanently closed; a man in a van was on his mobile phone asking for instructions because he didn't know about the closure either., I had to use the pedestrian only crossing over the railway a few hundred yards south but was soon able to continue along my originally planned route. 

I left the road as soon as possible, cutting through Birch Wood and coming out near to Ranskill level crossing [which is open]. I walked up to the bus stop on the main road, stopping at the shop for an iced lolly, and had half an hour to wait for the bus back to Doncasster..