When the North Telford Coronation walk booklet launched a few weeks ago I picked up a copy  on launch day. A few days later I walked route No. 5, Leegomery (I will post that walk soon).

Back to today I planned to walk my second Coronation walk from the book. The day ran away with me due to circumstances beyond my control. It was late afternoon before I could set off for a walk. I stuck with my plan to do the Hadley walk starting from the nearest point from my house which is the underpass near Leegomery Pools.

I followed the route until I neared Hadley Cemetery, I was running out of time and there was a dark ominous cloud overhead. I had left my house without a waterproof and didn’t want to get caught out in what might be a thunderstorm. I took a short cut home by crossing the road and walking past Hadley Cemetery towards Leegomery Pools, which joined with the route 6 path but I took a left hand turn before I reached the pools. The left hand path led me to the fastest route home.

I will start the walk again when I have more time complete it. Apart from a couple of teaser photos I will keep todays photos to share when I have completed the walk.

On my recent walk that took me past Hadley Cemetery I noticed a sign on the gates that said it was a site that contained Commonwealth War Graves. On that occasion I didn’t have enough time to investigate so I planned to return in the next few days.

When I posted about my walk I learned that the grandparents of a local fellow #walk1000miles participant were buried there. Lockdown restrictions have meant that he has not been able to visit their memorial site so I offered to take a photo of the memorial stone when I returned.

Today, when I retraced my steps I was hoping for sunshine. The sun had other ideas and left its hat off until I got home after my enjoyable local walk.