In the middle of January I wrote about our little Balderton loop. We've since refined it, and it has become one of our favourite local circuits.

So now it goes like this: Middlebeck (new housing estate); nice lane with llamas and horses; Balderton itself; Bullpit Road (or Bullpit Lane, depending on precisely where you are); various level crossings; Barnbygate; Newark marketplace -- and home. Or the reverse, needless to say.

I can't, by the way, find any information about an erstwhile bullpit, and my mother-in-law doesn't recall one either. But never mind.