Healthy Walk and a Bit of History
COMBINING a healthy walk with a bit of a history lesson could be right up your street in the next few weeks.
Charnwood Borough Council and Fusion Lifestyle, the authority’s leisure centre partner, are organising a free walk with all welcome from Birstall to the Abbey Pumping Station in Leicester on Wednesday, September 12, starting at 10.30am.
Councillor Paul Harley, Charnwood Borough Council’s Cabinet member for Leisure and Culture, is a regular walker and said: “It is a mixture of an invigorating walk, taking in canals and countryside with an insight too into a bit of Leicestershire history.”
Walkers should meet at the School Lane car park in Birstall and the walk will take them alongside the Grand Union Canal and through the leafy suburbs of Leicester before a one-hour stay at the Victorian pumping station.
Dogs can accompany the walkers but will not be allowed in the pumping station, which opened in 1891 as a water-treatment centre and now serves as a science and technology museum. Abbey Meadows itself is an area of bi-diversity and contains a wetland area.
For further information on the walk, contact Nita Pearson at Charnwood Borough Council on 01509 634594 or email:
