G R AV I T Y F I E L D S F E S T I VA L
A Pretty fine walk
“I have found that I get my best ideas
when I am walking. The physical action
of walking seems to unlock the brain.
It makes us creative, it helps sooth us,
and can be extremely restorative,” says
Ali Pretty, textile artist, designer and the
creative brain behind Walking with Newton.
Walk One:
Walk Two:
Approx: 20 miles
September 26
9am Grantham, to Colsterworth
Approx 15 miles
27 September
9am, Woolsthorpe Manor
North Witham to Grantham
Starts Outside St Wulfram’s church
North entrance by the Old School at
the King’s School Grantham (then the
Free Grammar School). Newton factfinding talk.
We visit St Andrews’ Church,
Boothby Pagnell. During his time of
discovery in 1666-67, Newton spent
time at Boothby Pagnell rectory, where
he worked on Fluxions.
Look around Medieval manor house
at Boothby Pagnell, believed to be
the most important surviving small
Norman manor house in England, with
defensive moat.
Go inside St. Thomas a Becket’s
Church Burton Le Coggles
Isaac’s uncle, William Ayscough, was
vicar of Burton Coggles.
North Witham for a story of midwives
and Isaac's birth, and a nearby stream
crossing where housemaids rested
while seeking help, convinced sickly
baby Isaac would anyway be dead
before they returned.
Welcome to St John the Baptist
Church, Colsterworth, Isaac’s local
church. He was baptized here and his
mother is buried under the church floor.
Isaac Newton was born in this modest
manor house in 1642 and made many
of his most important discoveries
about light and gravity here in the
plague years of 1666-7.
Visit the school at Skillington. Newton
possibly attended one of the ‘dame
schools’ here (where three of his aunts
lived) or Stoke Rochford – to learn
rudimentary reading and writing.
Past the obelisk at Stoke Rochford:
A huge obelisk was Christopher
Turnor’s me