Gotham, Nottinghamshire

Saturday 9th May
In the afternoon we drove to Gotham for a geocaching walk.
We started off walking along the main road and then diverted off along a footpath beside the British Legion club and then taking a stiff climb onto Gotham hill through a field full of cows. It was here that we had to stop to read the information board giving us the answer to the clue for the geocache. Unfortunately a cow was feeding her calf next to the board. John managed to get the information while I kept a safe distance. We calculated the co-ordinates and the cache was some way off our route so we decided to just collect the information needed and come back for the caches another time.
We walked across the top of Cottagers hill where we did find Rockers 2 cache and then descended the hill, stopping to look at the information board about wartime Gotham, and viewing the pill box. A hare ran across in front of us here. We crossed the road and headed towards Cuckoo bush farm, where we diverted off towards Crowden wood where we found the West Leake Hills cache. It was lovely and sunny as we descended off another hill and walked towards West Leake. We took a footpath beside fields and found a cache beside an old Dew pond and then had a pleasant walk up another hill in forestry land. We then walked along a pleasant wooded lane to get to the Cuckoo Bush tumulus where the Wise Fools of Gotham tried to fence in a cuckoo so that it would sing all year. We finally emerged onto the road at Gotham having walked 11km.