If you read my previous post marking the attempt to walk from Killamarsh to Clowne you will know I failed quite miserably, ending the walk at Barlborough just before the motorway. Today I will attempt to get a little bit closer to Clowne but with time constraints I am expecting to get only as far as the golf course where the LDECR crossed the M.R. Clowne Branch.
I started off looking back at the motorway and as the fence had signs up saying that wild guard dogs roamed loose, I decided against walking back up to it.
The view the other way towards Clowne wasn’t much better so I hiked round the industrial estate and got these views, the first back to where I should have walked from the motorway and the second where the trackbed continued.
So far on this part of the walk I hadn’t really been close to the trackbed, but that soon changed once I had gotten past the Tesco distribution centre. This is the view back to the motorway from just before the golf course, and the views of the path I climbed up and what I could have climbed up if I had avoided the trackbed and walked on the sanitised council path.
The trackbed would have continued here over part of the golf course, which I quickly walked over and reached the finish for today at the crossing of the old M.R. line. I couldn’t have gone further as the way was blocked by 2 six foot fences topped with barbed wire.
Overall this was a disappointing part of the walk, although from google map pictures I knew what to expect. And because I was stopped short of Clowne part three of this particular section is still to come.
Interesting article-thanks for posting it up.
ReplyDeleteShall watch your progress with interest.
Thank you for the comment, this is the first one I have :)
ReplyDeleteI have finished the Beighton Branch line now and am preparing for the mainline walk between Lincoln and Chesterfield.
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