WALK FROM WRAGBY

Thursday 31^st March 2011

Following persistent rain overnight and early morning, the weather improved by the start of the walk to give a fine, warm, completely dry day with sunny periods, although it did become very windy.

Setting off from Wragby Market Place at 10 am, the group of 15 walkers began the 10 mile walk. Our route took us past the Wragby Moats and on beside Badgermoor Wood and Ash Holt to reach the village of Langton by Wragby, birthplace of former Archbishop of Canterbury, Stephen Langton.

From Langton by Wragby church we headed south to Hoop Lane and then west through Firs Farm, past Hallbush Wood to Little Langley and the B1202. Taking the footpath past Goltho Grange we then turned right at the next footpath junction to pass through the corner of Black Plantation to reach a minor road from where we entered the Forestry Commission woodland known as West Wood. Turning right after 275 metres, we followed a path out of West Wood to enter Goltho Wood. In the relative shelter of the Great West Wood we stopped for lunch.

Goltho Wood is a newly planted Woodland Trust wood extending north from the Great West Wood all the way to the A158 with an extensive network of permissive paths. Heading north through Goltho Wood, we made our way to the impressive picnic table and sculpture where we stopped for a group photograph. We then completed a circuit around the northern portion of the woodland before exiting on to the adjacent road.

Our next destination was Goltho church, all that now remains of the medieval village of Goltho where we stopped to read the information panel. Proceeding south-east to reach a minor road, we passed Shepherd's Farm and then turned left on to the roadside path alongside the B1202 to return to Wragby which we reached at 2.50 pm.