Radcliffe on Trent Walk

It was a cold grey day (yesterday) with snow in the air - not ideal conditions for a dog walk. I walked through town to Trent Bridge. That's the Nottingham Forest ground viewed from the bridge:-


Not far after the football ground, is the Hook nature reserve and Trent fields - a big open grassland area, ideal for dog walks:-This block of luxury apartments, on the other side of the Trent, was built about the time of the credit crunch, I'm not sure how many have been sold. Sven Goran Erikson bought one of the penthouse flats, I believe:-



The route passes through the Holme Pierrepont watersports Centre. That's the white water course in the background:-

Unfortunately, the Centre has missed out on hosting watersports events for this years Olympics.

The riverside path deteriorates and eventually disappears after this point and there are no pedestrian bridges across the river on this stretch. This is a shame as Colwick Park is on the North bank which is another good dog walking area and would have been a good route home from here.

Continuing on, I had to negotiate some locked gates and barbed wire fences and eventually had to leave the river on the outskirts of Radcliffe as there was a stream with no crossing place.

I didn't really fancy the walk back as it was still cold and grey at 1pm, and so we got the bus home:-