Ruth's Coastal Walk (UK)

448am Boston to Freiston Shore

Posted on September 18, 2021 by Ruth Livingstone

[This walk was completed on the 10th July 2021]

It’s a Saturday, and the market in Boston is busy. I enjoy wandering past the stalls, and listening to the different languages being spoken.

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Posted in 23 Lincolnshire | Tagged hiking, photography, Pilgrim Fathers, travel | 5 Comments

447pm Frampton Marsh to Boston

Posted on September 16, 2021 by Ruth Livingstone

[This walk was completed on the 9th July, 2021]

The first part of the diversion looks quite appealing – a well-mown path around the edge of an old waste tip. There are gas-releasing tubes and cannisters poking up through the top soil

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Posted in 23 Lincolnshire | Tagged diversion, hiking, Macmillan Way, photography, river | 18 Comments

447am Frampton Marsh to Boston

Posted on September 14, 2021 by Ruth Livingstone

[This walk was completed on the 9th July, 2021]

At the end of the public road at Frampton Marsh, a RSPB worker is fixing an honesty box to a post, along with a sign asking people to pay for parking. I wonder if that’s legal on a public road, but she tells me I don’t have to pay as I’m cycling!

I chain my bike to a wooden barrier…

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Posted in 23 Lincolnshire | Tagged bittern, footpath diversion, hiking, photography, The Wash | 9 Comments

446 Fosdyke Bridge to Frampton Marsh

Posted on September 13, 2021 by Ruth Livingstone

[This walk was completed on the 8th July, 2021]

Glad to be back on my coastal trek, I hide my bike behind the hull of an old boat. It’s in a ramshackle yard, beside Fosdyke Bridge.

The bridge itself is an ugly old thing. It takes the A17 across the River Welland and, as far as I can tell, the bridge can’t move. Which means that no large ships can get beyond this point up the river.

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Posted in 23 Lincolnshire | Tagged fens, hiking, photography, The Wash, travel | 12 Comments

445 Holbeach St Matthew to Fosdyke Bridge

Posted on September 11, 2021 by Ruth Livingstone

[This walk was completed on the 13th June 2021]

I hide my Scooty bike in some bushes, and regain the sea bank near Holbeach St Matthew.

Sea bank? Not much sign of the sea, to be honest. Just a swathe of marshy grassland, intercut with channels of water.

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Posted in 23 Lincolnshire | Tagged cycling, fens, hiking, The Wash, travel | 6 Comments

444 Gedney Drove End to Holbeach St Matthew

Posted on September 4, 2021 by Ruth Livingstone

[This walk took place on the 12th June 2021]

I chain up my Scooty bike, and leave him hidden in some bushes. I’m back on Marsh Lane, near Gedney Drove End, and heading back to the sea wall.

A path climbs up onto the bank, and here the public footpath restarts along the sea wall. Why is there a gap in the footpath at this point? I don’t know.

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Posted in 23 Lincolnshire | Tagged danger area, fens, hiking, photography, The Wash | 17 Comments

443 Sutton Bridge to Gedney Drove End

Posted on September 3, 2021 by Ruth Livingstone

[This walk was completed on the 11th June, 2021]

I chain my bike to a fence in the little parking area on the east bank of the River Nene, and set off walking down the road towards Sutton Bridge.

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Posted in 23 Lincolnshire | Tagged fens, hiking, photography, The Wash, travel | 17 Comments

442 Ongar Hill to Sutton Bridge

Posted on August 26, 2021 by Ruth Livingstone

[This walk was completed on the 10th June 2021]

I cycle on the backroads from Sutton Bridge to the end of the road at Ongar Hill, and leave my Scooty bike chained to a gate.

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Posted in 02 Norfolk, 23 Lincolnshire | Tagged fens, hiking, lighthouse, The Wash, travel | 18 Comments

441b King’s Lynn to Ongar Hill

Posted on August 24, 2021 by Ruth Livingstone

[This walk was completed on the 9th June, 2021]

The ferry is running this morning! I am cycling through West Lynn, past the ferry car park, when I notice there are several cars parked there, and then I see a lady hurrying up the steps to the ticket office.

I hastily chain up my Scooty bike at a rack in the car park, and run after the lady – just in time to buy a ticket and catch the next crossing.

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Posted in 02 Norfolk | Tagged ferry, hiking, mud, river, travel | 26 Comments

441 King’s Lynn Revisited

Posted on August 22, 2021 by Ruth Livingstone

[This short walk took place on the 8th June, 2021]

I’m standing beside an offshoot of the River Ouse, looking at a group of derelict old boats abandoned on the bank. Crikey! They have really deteriorated in the 11 years since I was last here in King’s Lynn.