Fetch Virtual Challenge 2024

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3M 10 Jun 1:53pm, 10 Jun 2024 24,204 posts	0 3M Not something to build your house upon..... Somewhere along the road from Peterborough, and from the look of it if I'm not in Lincolnshire I jolly well ought to be. It's flat, big skies, and no other traffic!
3M 10 Jun 1:55pm, 10 Jun 2024 24,205 posts	0 3M Sorry, meant to include this...
Flatlander 10 Jun 3:13pm, 10 Jun 2024 3,244 posts	0 Flatlander 3M, that would be considered hilly for Lincolnshire (and some parts of Cambridgeshire). I had a look at where you are on the route map, and it appears that you are in Nottinghamshire. Not only that, but you are just a mile or so outside the village of Harby, the place where Queen Eleanor of Castile died on 28 November 1290. This is the Eleanor of the Eleanor Crosses fame, her bereathed husband Edward I erecting the crosses at each overnight stop of her body's procession from Harby to Westminster. en.wikipedia.org and en.wikipedia.org
3M 10 Jun 5:15pm, 10 Jun 2024 24,207 posts	0 3M Thank you, Flatlander. I could have googled for myself, really, couldn't I? I didn't know about Eleanor crosses, though.
Flatlander 10 Jun 5:29pm, 10 Jun 2024 3,245 posts	0 Flatlander The Eleanor Crosses are possibly better known in this part of England because of the route the procession took. Before you (and other Fetchies) got to Peterborough, you'd have passed through Norman Cross, but that isn't one of the Eleanor Crosses. Norman Cross was the site of a prison camp for French POWs over 200 years ago. en.wikipedia.org Of course, in my previous post, Edward I wasn't "bereathed", but bereaved.
ChrisHB 11 Jun 4:12pm, 11 Jun 2024 23,101 posts	0 ChrisHB I have finished the walk. I'd planned to end with a magnificent 15-20 mile hike, but doing more than I'd planned the last couple of days meant that a couple of roundabout trips to the shops was all I needed. Life will change - it always does when I finish the summer challenge. My personal challenge is to finish about 50th but I've never managed to restrain myself. Seventh this year is unlikely to be repeated though.
Jaks 11 Jun 4:31pm, 11 Jun 2024 7,704 posts	0 Jaks Well done ChrisHB
Flatlander 11 Jun 4:37pm, 11 Jun 2024 3,249 posts	0 Flatlander Good walking ChrisHB.
Lizzie W 11 Jun 6:42pm, 11 Jun 2024 28,588 posts	0 Lizzie W ChrisHB
ChrisHB 11 Jun 9:00pm, 11 Jun 2024 23,102 posts	0 ChrisHB thank you