An alluring name on the map is as good a reason for a walk as any. As my eyes prospected over the charted wilds of Leicestershire, they alighted on the River Sence. Here, surely, was a gift for The Oldie’s headline-writers.
I considered the valley’s Forest Park, wooded and full of paths to the east of the stream and, to the west, the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Wood. This was the