Length:
25.1 km (15.6 mi)
Ascent/Descent:
180/169m; Net Walking Time: 5 ½ hours
Toughness:
3 out of 10
Take
the 09.45 East
Midlands Trains service from St. Pancras I’nal to Corby (via
Luton and Bedford), arrives Wellingborough 10.37 [departs from the upper level, above the Thameslink platforms basically]
Return trains are run
by West Midlands Trains and go to Euston and are on xx.05 (77 mins) and xx.15
(slower).
Ticket
Advice: buy a cheap Advance ticket to Wellingborough (£18.00, cheaper with Railcards; with a Network Railcard split the ticket at Bedford) and a separate Super Off-Peak Single from Northampton on the day at Northampton (which is within the Network Southeast).
New Walk from Our Man in Northamptonshire. Here’s his summary of the walk:
Urban
and rural stretches of the River Nene and the villages of Cogenhoe and Little
Houghton
“The
walk divides in to three distinct parts: two very different riverside
stretches, separated by a rural section which visits two villages in search of
food. From Wellingborough it follows the River Nene as far as Cogenhoe Mill.” “The
river is fully navigable and it often divides in to two or three channels
before coming back together. It […] flows in a near constant direction
(South-West, heading upstream).
Access
to the river is not possible beyond Cogenhoe Mill. In Section 4 the route
tackles a short sharp climb to Cogenhoe itself, with the Royal Oak conveniently
just over halfway through the walk. Section 5 continues across fields to Little
Houghton (and The Four Pears). Section 6 descends gently to re-join the Nene,
which is now an altogether more sedate river, thanks to Northampton’s flood
barriers.”
Tea: lots of choice in
Northampton, see the pdf for details.
For
summary, map, height profile, walk directions and gpx/kml files
click
here. T=swc.378
4 comments:
Thank you to Thomas for continuing to design interesting new walks for us.
And Northantsman, of course.
Kind comments appreciated! Hoping for a decent turnout on Saturday. Should be no flooding issues, but night be the odd nettle.
I have just made some small changes to the walk, to bring the distances in to line (almost) with the official distances as calculated by men with gadgets. The main thing to note is that lunch is now after 13.4k or (probably too late) 16.9k.
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