| Date: Location: Distance: Parking: Lunch: | 21 February 2018 Tarrant Rushton 6.75 miles Windy Corner Coach and Horses, Wimborne |
It was a bright but chilly morning when we parked by the memorial at Windy Corner, quite a popular spot and we chatted with bird watchers and dog walkers.
We walked east along the road to join the track leading in to Sheep Park Coppice. Here we met a very nice and chatty lady walking her dog. She told us that most of the paths we planned to walk on were really bad with mud and water everywhere. Looking back over previous walks I found it interesting to see that when we did this walk in September 2013 we noted that it would be a good walk for wet weather! Well we pushed on anyway and found most of the paths perfectly fine with some lovely displays of snowdrops in the woods besides Bratch Lane. On a couple of occasions, between Six Cross Ways and Queen’s Coppice where the path had been “muddied up” by horses, we walked in the edge of the woods.
There had been a considerable amount of tree felling around Queen’s Coppice and this provided a good opportunity for a short break.
After Strawberry Coppice the scenery became a little more open to the east as the walk is along the edges of the woods rather than through the middle, a nice bit of variety. The woods and field boundaries were full of catkins bursting with pollen so it's easy to see why hay fever is common in February.
This is a very pleasant, fairly flat and easy walk. In a couple of months it will look very different when the bluebells are in bloom.
We walked east along the road to join the track leading in to Sheep Park Coppice. Here we met a very nice and chatty lady walking her dog. She told us that most of the paths we planned to walk on were really bad with mud and water everywhere. Looking back over previous walks I found it interesting to see that when we did this walk in September 2013 we noted that it would be a good walk for wet weather! Well we pushed on anyway and found most of the paths perfectly fine with some lovely displays of snowdrops in the woods besides Bratch Lane. On a couple of occasions, between Six Cross Ways and Queen’s Coppice where the path had been “muddied up” by horses, we walked in the edge of the woods.
There had been a considerable amount of tree felling around Queen’s Coppice and this provided a good opportunity for a short break.
After Strawberry Coppice the scenery became a little more open to the east as the walk is along the edges of the woods rather than through the middle, a nice bit of variety. The woods and field boundaries were full of catkins bursting with pollen so it's easy to see why hay fever is common in February.
This is a very pleasant, fairly flat and easy walk. In a couple of months it will look very different when the bluebells are in bloom.
 Snowdrops, Bratch Lane |  Queen's Coppice |  Pollen a Plenty |
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