Circling
I took the picture shown above before I even reached Norton Disney. I had just brought Clint to a shuddering halt outside Norton Disney Lodge which is a mile west of the village. I am looking down Newark Road - Newark being the closest significant town - after which Newark in New Jersey was named . After donning my boots in Norton Disney I set off to the neighbouring village of Stapleford with its interesting and remote church some distance from the village and without proper road access. It is called All Saints and it has stood by The River Witham since the eleventh century. I crossed the river and headed towards the next village called Carlton-le-Moorland. On the way my eye was drawn to the lonesome tree that you can see in the picture above. The land around it is like a prairie devoted to grain crops from which wild Nature has more or less been banished. Above that's a photograph of St Mary's Church in Carlton. It also dates from the eleventh century and...