Loch Tummel November 2016

Out of sorts for a couple of days so unable to join the boys on the Sunday morning walk. So to fill in the gap I'll post some pics from our recent holiday in Loch Tummel Scotland. This was a coach trip with Lochs and Glens holiday company, we've been with these for years and are great. We stayed at the Loch Tummel Hotel on Loch Tummel and had trips out every day. Day 1 was to Blair Castle, day 2 was to the Bruar Falls and Pitlochry with a call in at The Queens View. Day 3 was a trip to Dundee with an optional tour of the city.
We saw a little bit of snow but not enough to have a snow fight.

The best light was in the morning we were on the coach travelling back home, very frustrating for a photog just wanting to stop every 5 minutes and take some pics but hey that's life.

Fritchley Windmill

My turn this week and i had mentioned the Fritchley windmill some months ago and this morning was a good opportunity to visit. Rob was away on a medal fair so it was just the 3 of us. It didn't take long to get there probably about 12 minutes just.
We got booted up and set off in the direction of the windmill. Went past the green and the old church and continued up the lane until we reached the footpath up through the fields. I had located the windmill on Google the night before and I knew roughly where it was so we had a walk around the area and ended up at the windmill where we had our breakfast. After a few pics we set off back towards the car and went through some cracking woods and more fields then some more woods with a little bridge. We came back via the Butterley Gang Road and back to the car.

This weeks route to the windmill

Fritchley Congregational Church 1840

A truck from the Butterley Gang Road

Part of the Butterley Gang Road leading to the tunnel. The railway tunnel has been officially recognised as the oldest in the world by Guinness World Records.

Geoff taking a pic of Fritchley

This is a boundary stone, one side says S Wingfield and the other side says Crich

Our first glimpse of the windmill

Another view of the windmill from further up the track.

A view of Heage windmill across the valley several miles away.

A view looking towards Belper Lane End. The white building in the middle of the pic is The old Bulls Head pub.

A view of Wingfield Hall

Ike with a turnip

Had a nice chat to this chap on a circular walk from Fritchley.

Odd shaped chain link.

Spied the windmill through the style

Ruins of the 18th C windmill a grade ll listed building.

Ruins of Fritchley windmill

Geoff, Ike and me

Me

Me

Through the window of the mill

Through the mill door

In the woods

Well at the bottom of someones garden

Little bridge over the brook

Looking down into the Gang road

Last view of the windmill

Friends Meeting House (Quakers) 1897

View across the green

 This was a lovely little walk and none of us had been to the windmill before so it was a lovely surprise and the bonus was the views in all directions for several miles.