| Date: Location: Walk Leader: Participants: Distance: Parking: Lunch: | 11th May 2016 Badbury Rings Peter Peter, Clive, Ray 5.7 miles Cadbury Rings car park The Coach and Horses Wimborne ★★★☆☆ |
This was a rather short walk chosen to suit someone who shall remain anonymous but failed to turn up. To be fair he did have an excellent reason but when have we ever been fair?
View From Badbury Rings
The forecast was looking rather grim and it looked pretty gloomy when we set off. Luckily it turned out to be way off beam and we had a dry walk for the whole time.
We wandered across the rings and the wooded area on the fort before heading towards The Oaks. It was good to find some well maintained steps leading up and down the banks which are really very steep.
We wandered across the rings and the wooded area on the fort before heading towards The Oaks. It was good to find some well maintained steps leading up and down the banks which are really very steep.
| The area is surrounded by rape fields and their smell was quite apparent. Unfortunately the paths from The Oaks and round to King Down were rather well made up tracks. Easy walking but not very exciting! At King Down we walked across the field and thought about sitting on one of the mounds with an all round view for our break but this was not going to be very comfortable so we kept going. We finally stopped at the road junction on the upwind side of a very large dung heap perched on a hurdle - us not the dung heap. |  The Yellow Peril |
| There were no fences around this side of High Wood so we decided to take the tracks through the wood. This turned out to be very pleasant. It was a little damp in places but there were quite a few wild flowers to see along the paths. Fallen trees meant that superhuman leaps had to be made to progress along some of the paths. |  Two Athletes |
Leaving the woods we decided to follow a track that lead across the fields down to the Blandford Road. This was fine until we reached the corner which had been well protected to stop vehicles entering through the gate. The barbed wire was just low enough to allow us to step over if a little gingerly.
We then walked along the splendid avenue of beech trees back to the car park.
We then walked along the splendid avenue of beech trees back to the car park.
 The Beech Avenue |  Early Purple Orchid, Bugle, Dandelion |
Just in case you wanted to know The Bugle is quite common with blue flowers but rarely seen with pink or white flowers so, it seems, we were lucky to see the white version in the above picture.
Ray had noticed that the Coach and Horses in Wimborne was advertising food from 12 to 9 pm and two meals for £9.99. We thought we would give it a try and were very pleasantly surprised. TWO Gammon, egg and chips for £9.99 and £2.60 for a large pot of tea for two seems like a really good deal. The quality of the food and the quantity both exceeded expectations for the price. Clive's sandwich was not small.
Ray had noticed that the Coach and Horses in Wimborne was advertising food from 12 to 9 pm and two meals for £9.99. We thought we would give it a try and were very pleasantly surprised. TWO Gammon, egg and chips for £9.99 and £2.60 for a large pot of tea for two seems like a really good deal. The quality of the food and the quantity both exceeded expectations for the price. Clive's sandwich was not small.
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