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Sunday, 19 December 2021

Misty walk through the Garendon Estate

Such a cold and misty morning this morning that I decided to walk through the Garendon Estate from the entrance on Coe Avenue, to Shepshed and back via Pear Tree Lane and Gorse Covert Hill. Just about managed to see things I would normally expect to see, like the Bavarian Gates, but also some other interesting things like the Shepshed Watermill, allotments at Shepshed, various views of the Black Brook, and a view through to Gorse Covert Hill. Although it looks like we didn't finish we started, we did really, but didn't set the route monitoring thingy until just after we'd started!!

The route

At the start near Coe Avenue

Wall, gates and greenery

On the way to the Bavarian Gates

Approaching the Bavarian Gates

Across the fields

Passing the Bavarian Gates

Heading along Hathern Drive

Crossing to the Shepshed path

Looking back to Hathern Drive

On the way to Shepshed

Approaching the bridge over the M1

Looking north along the M1

Allotments on the way to Shepshed

The watermill on Hathern Road, Shepshed

The Black Brook on the left-hand side of Hathern Road as you head to Hathern

The Black Brook on the right-hand side of Hathern Road as you head to Hathern

The view from Bunny Hill Top to Gorse Covert Hill

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Sunday, 12 May 2019

Garendon Estate water mill

Who would have believed that 2 years after first visiting, I'd be visiting Shepshed watermill again, on this their first opening of 2019! I so loved the place when I went along in 2017 that I promised the other half I'd take him along the next time I went - and so I did!!

I blogged about the mill after my previous visit, but only very briefly as part of a post about a variety of mill-related visits, but didn't include any photos as far as I can remember. When I got back from today's visit, I fished out my photos from 2017 - and what a surprise to see that I'd pretty much taken the same ones!!! So, the Shepshed watermill was once part of the Garendon Estate, but its current owners have restored the mill to working order, and they open to the public for a couple of days each year.

There really was something for everyone at the mill - the water, the mill, flowers, trees, blacksmiths, Swithland slate, milking machinery, agricultural implements - and bits of Loughborough and Wales!!! Also some vintage cars - lovely to see the Gillott's lorry again - great to see the blacksmiths using their skills, smell the grease on the gears in the mill, hear the sound of the water flowing around the undershot wheel, interesting to see and hear traffic on the M1 which cut through the original Garendon Estate, and fascinating to hear the broadcasts being made by the Loughborough District Amateur Radio - and talk to one of their members about Edward Herbert (although I think the person referred to was actually Herbert Schofield), the transmitters on the university campus where the swimming pool is now, along with a photograph which included Mr Latimer of Latimer's the chemists in Loughborough market place.

Here's some photos from my 2019 visit, and one or two from 2017: