Saturday May 23rd
We had had several attempts at doing this section of the walk but for vaious reasons we had not succeeded getting beyuond the parking spot. There are no photos today as I couldn't find the camera.
It was a nice day so we decided on another attempt. We drove to Bagworth and parked opposite the very uninspiring church - it is just a concrete box with a concrete tower!
We left Bagworth along the bridal way and followed a field hedge with a view of Nailstone church spire in the distance. We descended a shallow valley and crossed a stream at the bottom and then approached Nailstone village. We walked round to see if the Nut and Squirrel pub was open. When we did this section when doing the Leicestershire Round the pub was closed but we were pleased to see that it was open today. We spoke to the landlady and she said that she had taken over and opened the pub on Bank Holiday Monday -just two weeks ago. She didn't do meals but did do cobs, so we had these for lunch. It was very hot by now.
after lunch we left Nailstone by walking through the churchyard and heading across fields towards Barlestone. We had to divert round the village as the footpath took a strange route and whilst crossing the fields we were surrounded by about 6 horses - We have since found that the collective noun for a horses is a harrass and we were certainly harrassed by them. We persuaded them to let us pass and headed around the fishing lake in the next field.
We walked beside the stream for a while and then walked across Bagworth Heath, through all the new forest plantations back to the car in Bagworth.
When I got home the camera was on the breakfast table!
