Monday 09 June
Harry collected Maureen and drove us to Seaton. She presented us with scones and a ginger cake. He dropped us off near the pub. We walked through the village past a display of perennial sweet peas which outshone even ours at home.
At the end of the village we took Grange Road downhill and along the public footpath, through fields and past Prestley hill - one of the twins peaks, or paps of Lyddington.
Our route goes past the site of the ancient fish ponds behind the church and Bede House into Lyddington.
We refreshed ourselves with a leisurely (45 minute) coffee stop at the White Hart, before taking the quiet Thorpe Road, and the footpath on the other side of the slightly busier road at the end.
We followed this across the fields, under the disused railway bridge to the footbridge over the Welland.
A few more fields, then it’s back uphill to Gretton, crossing the railway line, and along the short stretch of tree-covered path.
A final uphill pull through the ridged and furrowed field to Church Gap brings us into Gretton. About 5.5 miles.
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