Lambley old road

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Over the Easter weekend I have been trying out the Canon 7D (with a zoom lens) to try to get some close-up footage of wildlife in the fields around Lambley - for inclusion in the film I am making about the village. In truth I'm not sure it has been entirely successful - I think the footage has a slightly different tone from my Canon 550D. There is a fragment of film using the 7D at the bottom of this post.

However the footage is interesting for me because it is taken looking along part of the route of Lambley old road. I hadn't realised it when I came up with the idea but it turns out that my 'Poetry Seen at Cowslip Sunday' installation is to be located along part of this same historic route into Lambley. I'm really pleased that anyone visiting the 'Poetry Seen' installation will be walking along ground that, though now part of a secluded woodland path, once formed the main road into and out of the village - and as such provides a physical connection with the past under people's feet.

Lambley old road

Running parallel to Lambley Dumble this old road would have been hedged on either side.

The Hawthorn trees shown (see photograph at top) are most probably remnants of the original hedges that flanked the road. 

The trackway is clearly visible on Richard Bankes' crown survey "Sherwood Forest In 1609"


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