The flier arrived a few days ago from the Friends of The Forest with details of this year’s Inclosure Walk.

Last year, I said that it sounded interesting, but in the end I chickened out of going on the grounds of torrential rain on the afternoon in question.

As I said in last year’s post, it always sounds interesting, and a five mile walk is good for me. Yet somehow in six years I’ve been a councillor, I’ve been invited every time and not yet made it along to the walk.

Here’s hoping it works out better this year!

I retyped the details of the walk to put it in the events on the Nottingham Lib Dem website events calendar (which, along with listing the events we organise as a local party, also includes listings of things happening in Nottingham that I know about and think sound interesting) so here they are:

The 7th Great Nottingham Inclosure Walk

Meet at the river end of Queens Walk at 2pm on 28th June when the walk will be started by the Lord Mayor, Cllr Jeannie Packer.

This free walk passes through the historic green spaces of central Nottingham finishing on the Forest Recreation Groun at the Inclosure Oak. Short talks will be given at places of interest. You can join the tour at at any point along the route – look out for the placards and yellow tabards.

We celebrate the 1845 Inclosure Act which allotted 130 acres of recreation ground in perpetuity to the people of Nottingham and honour the memory of the Mayor and Corporation of 164 years ago who had the foresight to lay it out to the highest standards.

5 miles of of smooth surfaces suitable for powered wheelchairs. The tram or bus can take you back to the city centre of station.

The route takes in:

• Queens Walk
• The Station
• St Mary’s Church
• Victoria Park
• Robin Hood Chase
• Mapperley Reservoir
• Corporation Oaks
• Elm Avenue
• Arboretum
• General Cemetary
• Waterloo Promenade
• The Forest.

Contact: Friends of the Forest: 0115 960 9221

The City Council also has another whole page of interesting city centre walks you can do in your lunchbreak on sunny days like today.  I haven’t done any of those, either.