The walks around the village undertaken by the Cotgrave U3A walking group were inspired by the interest shown in the history of Cotgrave both through the now defunct Cotgrave Local History Society and more recently by the Cotgrave U3A History group. In fact the Local History Society had organized their walk as a picture quiz with supporting written information designed to inform and assist in compiling answers to the picture quiz.
The U3A Walking group initially led by Malcolm Baxter and Geoff Milner undertook a series of walks in Nottingham city and Nottinghamshire giving factual information about the locality and its history. Malcolm and Paul Childs were then instrumental in devising two Cotgrave village walks that informed walkers about the places of interest along with old photographs of the place or location with historical information/hearsay similar to that of the Local History Society quiz to whom we are indebted Where there are two photographs side by side one is a current photograph and the other one from the last century