As the weather gets warmer many residents flock to the seaside or spend a day walking along or sailing in the River Trent, but for some riverside villages this can be problematic. Gunthorpe is a beautiful village located near Lowdham stretching along the river, with Gunthorpe Lock one of the largest locks on the Trent.
But residents have warned that each summer the village's only car park gets full and people fill up Main Street with their cars. Retired Steve Henesy, 63, explained he doesn't experience the issue as he lives "far enough away from the river." He said: "Parking will be a problem closer to the river as the road does tend to get full there."
Steve explained the village often gets busy in summer, and people come from all over to go to the pubs and businesses on the riverfront all year round. He added: "If you're a local then probably you don't go to the pub when the sun is out as it's too busy."
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He said he didn't think there were enough resources in the village, and added that some years "we have the youths jumping off the bridge which brings the emergency services round".
A retired 75-year-old, who lives in Gunthorpe but did not want to be named, said he had noticed a problem: "Very much so. It's mainly the amount of car parking on the Main Street which is horrific and trying to get round the roads when we know it's going to be busy which is any good sunny Sunday.
"I don't even attempt to go in from the bridge [Gunthorpe Bridge], I go in from the Lowdham end because it can be quite difficult to get through all the cars." However, he explained that when it's not busy he likes to enjoy the River Trent as well.
He added: "If it's not too busy then we can walk across the river and walk out to Caythorpe." Speaking about the offering for children in the village, the man replied: "They are trying, the school does stuff and the people who operate the village hall try to do stuff for them, so they have even got some junior football teams being sorted."
Regarding the car parking, Gunthorpe mum Emma Kenna, 31, said: "There tends to be a bit more traffic along the main road but nothing that bothers us." Speaking about the businesses on the riverfront, she added: "They get really busy in summer with visitors, so we tend to avoid them at those sorts of times."
Emma explained that sometimes boats come past or people go on the river for water sports. She said: "There's a group of people who all do water sports. They have water skis and stuff like that."
The mum added that there used to be a boat that people could hire to "go along the river for an hour or two" but this stopped a few years ago.
"There's plenty in Gunthorpe, there's a park that not a lot of people know about, there's plenty of nice walks and there are the surrounding villages that are within walking distance like Burton Joyce and Caythorpe."
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2023-07-28 03:00:00Z
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