I travelled on the Retford bus to Barnby Moor and walked down the road to the Chesterfield Canal; it's about a mile. I then walked on the towpath to Retford, a distance of maybe three miles. It 's been a lovely sunny day but there was a rather cold wind blowing.
I travelled on the Worksop bus to Carlton in Lindrick today and headed southwest towards Woodsetts.
Unusually, there's a speed limit for horses in Wallingwells.
I continued across some fields and then some lovely heathland as I approached South Anston.
I crossed more fields going over to Kiveton Park; this stretch was a bit boring but I got talking to a local woman for most of the way. I joined the Cuckoo Way south of Kiveton Park and stayed with it until I reached Norwood. I'd planned to pass through the southern end of Rother Valley Country Park but somehow ended up turning to the south and walking down through a very pleasant valley with several stylishly renovated old mill buildings.
I walked along the road for a few yards at Norwood before joining the towpath of the Chesterfield Canal; the canal is abandoned and overgrown along this stretch. I came out in the northern suburbs of Killamarsh and then walked over the county boundary to the tram terminus at Halfway. I only had to wait four minutes for my journey to Sheffield City Centre.
I walked in four different local authority districts today; Bassetlaw, Rotherham, North East Derbyshire, and the City of Sheffield.
I'd planned a walk starting from Tuxford today visiting some areas to the south of Retford I'd not been to before, but the Retford bus didn't show up. When the Worksop bus turned up ten minutes later I got on that instead and started my alternative walk by heading to the west on the towpath of the Chesterfield Canal. A friend, called John, was on this bus and so we spent an hour chatting about non-league football and our favourite local towns: he was travelling to Blyth to take some photographs of the village and visit the pubs.
I left the canal at Cinderhill Lock and took the footpath that heads north to Lindrick Golf Course; there are a couple of pretty houses on the way at Brancliffe Grange.
I briefly entered Woodsetts and then headed across the fields to the hamlet of Wallingwells and then caught the bus back to Doncaster at the first bus stop in Carlton in Lindrick. My original intention was to go a bit further to Langold but for the first time this summer my hay fever was bad and so I bailed out at the earliest opportunity.
Because of the likely problems on the railways today caused by the ongoing strikes I'm having to stick to the buses and travelling down to Nottinghamshire. I caught the Worksop bus to Carlton in Lindrick, visited the old part of the village and then walked along a couple of back roads until I reached a path going over to Scofton.
I joined the Chesterfield Canal at Osberton Lock and then walked along the towpath to Worksop; the towpath was the most overgrown I've ever seen it.
It was a later than usual start this morning because I needed to go to the chemist's to pick up my tablets; so I went on a local walk. I travelled on the Retford bus to Barnby Moor and walked for about a mile along the road until I reached the Chesterfield Canal. I then walked along the towpath to Worksop.
There can't be many places in the country where a sign points to two different crematoria.
It was bright sunshine at the start of the walk, but it did cloud over in the afternoon.
There were a couple of fallen trees lying across the towpath; the first one was easy to get by but the second one required a bit of athletic gymnastics and a pulled muscle.
Whenever I walk past this pumping house I always think it wouldn't look out of place in Venice.
When I got to the bus stop at Worksop the bus had been cancelled and so I had to wait twenty minutes for the next one; fortunately there's a live departures board.
There's an area of the town known as Wensleydale, it was showing a bus was due on the destination board, but when I took a photograph this was what I got.
