Gringley-on-the-Hill Open Gardens and Classic Car Display

My first Open Gardens event of the year, visiting Gringley-on-the-Hill, only seventeen miles away in Nottinghamshire. It's a pretty village which I've visited several times before but today I got to visit areas I've not previous seen; there were only six gardens scheduled to be open today, but two of them were actually closed.

The village is hilly and Siobhan, my support worker, struggled a bit; the carpark is at the bottom of a hill and by the time we'd climbed up to community centre to purchase our wristbabds and programmes we were both ready for a sit down and something to eat. Siobhan purchased a sandwich but I got a Gainsborough pasty.

The classic car display was rather disappointing, most of the vehicles were fairly recent...but there were a few nice ones.

Goldthorpe, Phoenix Park, Stotfold, Hooton Pagnell, Moorhouse, and South Elmsall

I wasn't feeling particularly well yesterday and so thought I'd better stick to an easy local walk today. I caught the Barnsley bus to Goldthorpe and then climbed up to the summit of Phoenix Park, the landscaped former spoilheap of Hickleton Main Colliery.

I descended down to the road and continued along a track to the tiny hamlet of Stotfold and then climbed up to Watchley Crags and the village of Hooton Pagnell beyond, one of my favourite local places.

I finished the walk by walking down the Hampole road for a few minutes until I found the path that goes across the fields to Moorhouse.

The final section of footpath went next to an orchard and across more fields until it reached an access road that runs right alongside the railway line basically all the way to the railway station. I had forty minutes until my train back to Doncaster was due so I looked round the shops, many of them were closed and shuttered though.