Holiday in Loughborough

Watery Loughborough

So, this year, instead of the annual two-week holiday in St Ives, Cornwall, our holiday this summer is staying in Loughborough and investigating as many water sources as possible. It's hardly the same as seeing the Celtic Sea, which is apparently the bit of the Atlantic Ocean that St Ives sits on, but it has actually been quite exciting trying to find as many bodies of water as possible.

Most of the places I've been to these last two weeks, are either places I've been to before, or places I've been meaning to visit for a while. Needless to say, there wasn't enough time to visit or re-visit some places, so there's still plenty more for another day! And I'm pretty sure there are places I haven't been to that I don't know about!!

Of course, when I embarked on my watery Loughborough holiday, I hadn't really thought that it would rain nearly every day in the first week, and that I would get absolutely soaked on a couple of days!! It was almost like being at the seaside!!

I also admit to getting a bit confused with all the names of the bodies of water I've visited. Sometimes it's a canal, sometimes a cut, sometimes a river, sometimes ... well, the list goes on!! The best I can do today is share some photos of the places I've visited, and some maps of the walking route I took to get to and around them. They're all well worth the trip, if, like me, you're looking for a watery Loughborough holiday!

Around Black Brook Reservoir and Whitwick Quarry

Black Brook Reservoir

The Black Brook under the Stonebow Bridge

The Black Brook near Morrisons

Whitwick Quarry

Around Buck Hill area Part 1

Around Buck Hill area Part 2

Practically the start of the Wood Brook on Home Farm, Nanpantan

From Bunny and around Rushcliffe country park

The pond at Rushcliffe country park

Around Foremark Reservoir

Foremark Reservoir

Shardlow to Trent Lock

River Trent between Shardlow and Trent Lock

Start of the Trent and Mersey Canal at the mouth of the River Derwent, near Shardlow

River Trent and Erewash Canal junction near Trent Lock

River Trent at Shardlow

Canal and River at Sawley

Around Staunton Harold Reservoir

Staunton Harold Reservoir, beachy end

Staunton Harold Reservoir, Melbourne end

Sutton Bonington to Trent Lock and back

River Soar through Kegworth

Grand Union Canal at Kegworth

Looking towards the Erewash Canal

Beeston to Nottingham along the Trent and the Beeston Cut

Beeston Canal, Attenborough end

Beeston Canal, Nottingham end

The River Leen in Nottingham between the Trent and the Beeston Canal

The River Trent at Beeston

I have no map for the remaining watery trips out, but here are some photos of the other places I visited:

Charnwood Water

Dishley Pool

Grand Union Canal at the I&R Morley apartments near Nottingham Road

Thornton Reservoir

Bridge over the Hermitage Brook

The Summer Pool Brook on the Lammas Meadow

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