Walking near Calverton in Notts, August 2013.

This very good 8 mile walk in Nottinghamshire starts from Calverton and takes in Woodborough and Lambley. It is described in full at the Notts Pubs website - to whom many thanks.

Calverton was a centre for the Framework Knitting industry and the walk continues through pleasant rolling countryside, Lambley - the birthplace of Lord Cromwell, treasurer of England at the time of Henry VI - and a variety of 18th century cottages as well as several pubs, a grass strip runway, an original "Button A, Button B" phone box and an iron age hill fort. Enough to interest everyone.

We ate at the Robin Hood and Little John in Lambley which, though some distance from Sherwood Forest, featured a solicitous bar maid, well kept Marston's Pedigree and Bank's Mild plus an outstanding steak and ale pie (none of your puny puff pastry hats on this dish, but fine shortcrust pastry and excellent meat and gravy.)

This walk clocked up the 30th of our 39 English counties and the last that we can achieve in a day trip, leaving us with 9 counties to conquer in 5 weekends.

Outside the church at Calverton, planning the walk.

John, Tim and Mark

Striding through Fields of Gold ....

A remarkable preservation of the old fashioned telephone. If you remember button A, button B (and if you still use the word "telephone") you must be getting on - like us ....