Friday 3rd January 2014.Start and finish Enderby Leisure Centre - round walk of 4.6 miles

A happy and healthy New Year to all our followers.

Early morning the weather was atrocious but it had stopped raining by the time seventeen walkers met at Cosby Village Hall car park - you just have to get out and brush those cobwebs off!   We set off for Enderby Leisure Centre and parked our cars there.

 As the rain hadn't seemed to have stopped for a couple of weeks the decision to keep out of the fields was quite easy.  It would be folly to go wandering across fields, ankle and sometimes knee deep in mud. Locally, there are a lot of flooded fields caused by small innocent streams turning into torrents of water over night; much better to wait until it all settles down again.

Setting off from the Leisure Centre we made our way through Enderby village towards Seine Lane via Cross Street. This is the older part of Enderby and some interesting facts were related by some of the walkers who live in the village.

Cross Street 1950

We made our way to a disused railway line known locally as 'Whistle Way'.  This branch line used to link the now disused Enderby Warren Quarry with the Birmingham to Peterborough Line approximately 1 km southwest of Narborough railway station.

On to Whistle Way
  

We walked the full length of Whistle Way to Narborough.

Our tea/coffee break was at the Narborough Arms -  jokes were the order of the day - cold outside, warm inside.

Walking back to the Leisure centre it was agreed that if the weather is kind we would walk round Draycote Water next week.

Maps and Technical.

Willie and Sheila will be back  next week after their Christmas and New Year holiday in Hampshire.