The Rambling Sheep
  • Home
  • Photography
    • The Jurassic Coast
    • Poole Harbour
    • The Lake District
    • The Air Show
    • Sark
    • Birds
  • Walks
    • Meet Wednesday's Walkers
  • Wet Weather Walks
  • Walkers' Blog
  • Canals
    • Breaking Bread
    • The Warwickshire Ring
    • Oliver's Travels
  • Links
  • Cape Warbler

Bere Wood

23/4/2014

0 Comments

 
Date:
Location:
Walk Leader:
Participants:
Distance:
Parking:
Lunch:
234rd April 2014
Bere Wood
Peter
Peter, Clive, Ray, Rob.
7.3 miles
Bere Regis Car Park
Worlds End ★★
This walk did not work out as planned.  It is shown here for record purposes only. 
Do not attempt to do this walk for the following reasons.
1) It is on private woodland owned by the Drax Estate.
2) The paths are not where they are shown on the OS map.

The walk leader had failed to recognise that this is NOT an area where walkers can wander about as they please.  The ONLY public route is along the marked Bridle path.
As we wandered along we were met by a gentleman, in the old fashioned sense of the word, who asked us if we were aware that we had strayed a long way off the bridle path.  One of our band immediately recognised Richard Drax and said he missed him on the TV!  After a short conversation he very kindly gave us permission "on this occasion only" to complete our walk as he had no wish to spoil our day.  It was already not that wonderful as the rain had started several hours earlier than forecast and we were pretty wet.
So we continued but … the paths are not quite where they appear to be and several paths have been re-routed and turned into tracks suited to quite large vehicles.  We were very pleased to have a GPS and good tracking system so we could relatively easily see where we were.  Without this we could easily have become lost.
In spite of the weather this walk was quite enjoyable.  It is really a bit of a shame that we will never be able to repeat it in the sunshine.
We saw several small herds of deer, some beautiful swathes of bluebells, a wide variety of trees, and a wonderful playground for paintball enthusiasts.
Picture
Picture
A good spot for the morning break
Picture
Bluebells by the bridle path
Picture
Paint ball playground
Picture
Fallen larches
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    The Walkers' Blog

    If you see something in pale blue such as Wikipedia it means that this is a link.  Hover over it and you will see the hand symbol. Click on it to see an article from somewhere else on the web.  
    ​

     At the end of April 2019 there are 218 walks on the Blog.


    Click on a "Category" at the bottom to select only one particular Leader's walks.

    Archives

    July 2020
    April 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013

    Categories

    All
    Clive
    Peter
    Ray
    Rob

    RSS Feed

Picture
Design by DivTag Weebly Templates
Picture
Picture
Proudly powered by Weebly