Another Walk...Newstead Abbey

Malcolm walks beside a cornfield with poppies

Tourist and statue at Newstead Abbey

Stirring the stew

The old railway track

A green lane

Newstead Abbey - not many tourists!

Lake and stables

Wildflowers beside the path

Linby village and our car

Lunch pub - once owned by our family!

A walk in the Nottinghamshire countryside

Today we took our car and drove to a nearby village called Linby.  We parked in the pub car park where we had a chat to the publican.  I told him a relative owned the pub in the mid 1800's (actually, checking up on my family tree this afternoon I realise 3 generations owned it).  He told us that when Jacob Jennison (Jake)passed the pub on to his grandson he used to come and stay in the out-buildings and he was very eccentric.  He hid a stash of money in the loft and when his grandson finally found it the mice had used it to make nests from!

Anyway we had found details of a circular walk online and set off from Linby along a disused railway track.  It was full of wild flowers - more than I could name, and butterflies and birds.  Then the path led through a lodge gate into the grounds of Newstead Abbey.  This was a medieval Abbey that had been destroyed by Henry VIII and a mansion built on the grounds beside the ruins.  There are lakes and amazing gardens.  It was the family home of the poet, Lord Byron.

First stop was the tea rooms, then we had a wander around the gardens before continuing our walk through a wood, along a green lane, across fields and finally back to Linby in time for a pub lunch in the pub that could have been still in the family but unfortunately isn't!

Hey Faith - pub lunch, ham and mustard baguette with cider



Salmon and prawn salad





Back home, mum's garden