Trent Riverside Walk

Bit of a pleasant surprise this walk. I took my car to Gainsborough for an MOT, and being advised of a couple of hour wait, I decided to meander down to the riverside where there is an industrial landscape path and a few sleepy information boards. Thankfully no urban maniacs around. It was a lovely day with the sun dancing on the river, and illuminating the ochres of industrial brickwork and obsolete rusted machinery. The burdock and umbellifers had all but set seed and were nodding sagely to the passing river, acknowledging its majesty.

The River Trent also has some notable historical mentions including King Canute who stood in the River Trent in an attempt to hold back the tide. It was believed it was to demonstrate that power is vain compared to the supreme power of God. It was also here in Gainsborough that some of the Pilgrim Separatists fled from the town on a barge up the River Trent in search of religious freedom in May 1608. They met others at an isolated place along the coast near Immingham where they boarded a Dutch ship to Amsterdam. Some would later return and board the Mayflower in Plymouth in 1620.

From the Visit Lincoln website.