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Ashurst, New Forest, New Area, New Pub

17/2/2016

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17th February 2016
Accurst
Peter
Peter, Clive, Ray, Rob
6.8 miles
The Happy Cheese Car Park
​The Happy Cheese  ★★
An all new walk and pub - fantastic - what an achievement.  There are plenty of other paths to explore in this are too.


​We set off from the car park along a fairly wet but well made up track before turning off through a gate and into Churchplace Inclosure.  Much of the ground was rather soggy but we made pretty good progress.
After a while we decided to go off piste.
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Not Very Inviting
 


​At first we followed a fire break and then just cut across the woodland, which was mostly pines in this area. The bracken would have made this impossible in the summer.
There were several quite large wood ants' nests in the trees.  I thought they would make a nice seat for a group photo but failed to convince the others.
We left the inclosure by a gate in the far south west corner and strolled down to have a look at the bridge over the railway line.  The other side of the tracks looks rather too boggy for this time of year so we headed towards Longdown Inclosure.
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Deep Amongst The Trees
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No Ants In Our Pants
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Train, Track and Trees
 A brief look showed that there was no short cut across the extensive boggy area and we went back to the cycle track.
As we travelled south west in Longdown Inclosure we soon became enveloped in smoke and so we delayed our break until we were well clear.  We then tried unsuccessfully to find the path across the stream near Peel Hill.  In the event we had to scramble across some fallen and low growing trees to reach the dry path on the other side.
The source of the smoke soon became very apparent.  We considered a few options for shortening the walk as it was looking a bit gloomy but agreed to follow the original plan around the edges of Longdown Inclosure and then back into Deerleap Inclosure.  There were some interesting smaller tracks here too.  The rain held off until we were close to the site of the Hunting Lodge but then we started to get quite wet!
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The Smoke Source
The Happy Cheese turned out to be a pretty decent pub with 2 mains for £12 so we all enjoyed a good meal in spite of some indecision owing to the numerous choices.  An additional bonus - decent pots of tea hot and full.
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