The Hare & the Purse, the Cuckoo & the Fence - Day Walk

From our meeting point we will take a short hop on the Nottingham Express Tram (NET), this will cost £1.50 (or if you're coming by public transport use an all day ticket for £5), from Southchurch Drive we'll take a pleasant walk down Fairham Brook on route to Rushciffe Country park, this first part of the walk is fairy flat and we'll cross Gotham Moor (maybe seeing a few steam trains enroute) before reaching Gotham itself.

Gotham village, is famous for the legendary Merry Tales of the Mad Men of Gotham, first published in 1540, in later editions sanitised to Wise Men. One story tells how the Wise Men acted as madmen to dissuade King John from passing through the village and taxing them, madness then being thought contagious.

These numerous tales of simple-minded logic include raking the moon out of a pond, trying to drown eels and a rider carrying a corn sack on his shoulders to take the weight off his old horse. Many of the tales date from the 12th century, but it is a mystery how the hapless villagers acquired their reputation.

After the village the walk gets hillier and we head over to a tumulus, Cuckoo Bush, supposedly site of the fence the Wise Men of Gotham built to keep a cuckoo trapped so that summer would go on forever. When the cuckoo flew away, they declared they should have made the fence higher.   Finally Gotham Hill, from here you will get some great views of the local area before we head back to the park and ride (no need for a second ride on the NET).

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