Edwinstowe - Scrooby - Austerfield
Ther. [Thermometer] THURS. [Thursday] JULY 27, 1911 Wea. [weather]
Fine
Clear & hot with strong S.W. wind.
We spent forenoon in hotel, reading aloud etc.
At 2 P.M. we started for Scrooby in a motor car
For 10 miles or so the way lay through heart of
Sherwood Forest. It extends 30 miles. Although
less wild & impressive than New Forest it is very
beautiful. Immense tracts of woods alternate with
equal extents of grain & grass lands. The old oaks
are shorter than those in New Forest & past their
prime with dying tops. At Scrooby we went over
Elder Wm Brewster's house at Austerfield over 
Gov. Bradfords. Both most interesting & quaint.
Former built on bank of river facing village with 
flat open fields behind. Swallows nesting on shed
where Pilgrims gathered. Mrs. Drury, present
tenant, gave me a section of oak beam
from upper chambers & sold me a chair (1 pound)
that had been in her husbands family 100 years
The Church here was less interesting than
that at Austerfield. Our return ride we
burst a tire. As our man was replacing it I
strolled, along road. A Lark soared & sang
deliciously; Wood Pigeons cooing in fir woods
Guns firing in distance. Got home at 8 P.M.

Edwinstowe, Sherwood Forest.
Ther. [Thermometer] FRI. [Friday] JULY 28, 1911 Wea. [Weather]
Red letter day in Forest. Fine
Clear & hot with light southerly breeze.
We took a landau with single horse & 
man to drive & started off at 10.30. First
we drove about 3 m. along straight road
under blazing sun between grain fields alive
with singing Larks & Yellow Hammers to
Parliament Oak the pathetic but still living
fragments of a once fine tree under which
King John is said to [have] assembled his subjects.
Returning we left our carriage & walked 1/2 
mile through wonderful forest of oaks more
than 1000 years old. All of great bulk but
mostly with blasted tops. The ground beneath
everywhere covered with unbroken beds of
bracken waist to shoulder high. At length
we came to the Major or Queen Oak the
monarch of the forest 10 ft. in diameter 5 ft
about ground. Its hollow heart will hold 18
full grown men. Here we lunched & sat for
2 hours. I had long talk with 2 men [?]
unfamiliar with forest. It was alive with
birds. I saw 3 Jays & 2 Redstarts & hosts
of Titmice. Drove thence to Ollerton for tea.
After dinner we sat for an hour on little bridge
over the Maun [?] [?] with [?] [?]