Peter Walker

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Saturday, 22 February 2025

A walk around Nottingham Hill

Waking up to seeing a bright blue sky out my window I thought I had to get out and go for a walk, to make the most of the nice weather. Also, i thought this would be a good oppurtunity to find some fences, gates, and walls that I would be able to sketch in my notebook later on. Looking at my map I found a small circular route around the common land and woodlands of Nottingham hill on the edge of the cotswolds. Whilst on the walk I passed through multiple gates on the footpath which I thought would be a good feature to use to practise my construction drawings. However, as I did not take measurements of the fence I could not draw it to scale instead just sketching what i saw.
After passing through 2 muddy woodlands I came to a farm track surrounded on either side by dry stone walls, made out of Cotswold Stone. I thought this would be another good feature to sketch. When I got back to my room I looked for cross section drawing of drystone walls which helped me to complete mine and add annotations for the differant parts of the walls and stones used.