White Nancy
6th June 2009
Leaders: Grenville Jones and Stephanie Grimshaw
In June it was a smaller party which set off from St Mary’s. The weather forecast was poor and we had held a referendum as to whether to go at all – but we are ramblers, after all, so we duly set off.
It got cooler, windier and wetter as we reached the visitor centre at Tegg’s Nose Country Park, but there was a friendly place inside for us to get booted up. We were in the company of a large group of Duke of Edinburgh candidates who were taking the whole thing much more seriously than us, weighed down as they were with camping gear.
By the time we crossed the A537 the rain had all but stopped. We continued northwards to the B5470 at Rainow, and then along the valley alongside Kerridge Hill. After a futile attempt to find a suitable pub for lunch in Kerridge, we made a final upward push to get us up to the ‘Pepper Pot’ or White Nancy monument where we sheltered from the wind behind a wall for a well deserved but less exciting sandwich.
We followed the track along the ridge of Kerridge Hill and dropped down through blossom-filled woodland to the B5470 again, before the final climb back up to the visitor centre. It had proved to be a most enjoyable walk and we had been rewarded with meadows full of flowers and skylarks singing.
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