| Date: Location: Walk Leader: Participants: Distance: Parking: Lunch: | 16th November 2016 Broadmayne Clive Clive, Peter, Ray 7.5 miles The Black Dog ar park The Red Lion, Winfrith ★★☆☆☆ |
This was a very good walk on a bright and pleasant day even though we were all feeling very heavyhearted as a result of Rob's death. The next post will be a reflection of the happy times we had with a really true friend.
We had hoped to get back to the Black Dog in time for lunch but they stop serving at 2:30 and we were too late! There car park was however very large and in just the right place
After a short walk along the surprisingly busy road we turned south and out across the fields. Clive said the first half was the more hilly part of this walk and he was quite right.
We had hoped to get back to the Black Dog in time for lunch but they stop serving at 2:30 and we were too late! There car park was however very large and in just the right place
After a short walk along the surprisingly busy road we turned south and out across the fields. Clive said the first half was the more hilly part of this walk and he was quite right.
| Just to prove the point I have included the profile for the walk so you can see how he put us through our paces. He cheated by having an energy drink in his rucksack ready to revive himself whenever needed. |  |
The weather was kind. It was a lovely bright day and not too warm so we managed pretty well. It was good to see that from the park at Powell the route dropped down to Moigns Barn Down. Though this is a rather wet area with some tumbledown buildings.
As with last week it seemed that appropriate seating was in very short supply but we eventually found an open barn with a well placed straw bale where we could have a well earned rest.
The path around Misery Farm no longer crosses in from of the property but goes around to the west of the small lake. This is a very pleasant spot and why anyone would give it such a name is a bit of a mystery. It seems to have now had a name change and is known as Lower Watercombe Farm, but not on the OS map. It sleeps 14 and is available to rent by the week http://www.classic.co.uk/holiday-cottage/desc-3001.html. It's worth taking a look.
Shortly after reaching the end of the road from Misery Farm we joined the Jubilee Trail for a short time, leaving it at Fryer Mayne Wood. By now the wind had started to strengthen quite considerably bringing the leaves down from the trees. Just before this track joins the A352 into Broadmayne there is another little mystery and abandoned corrugated iron building that may have been an old methodist chapel, but possibly not. There is nothing to give away its original use.
Lunch at the Red Lion, another all day food pub, was all right but it will not become a favourite.
As with last week it seemed that appropriate seating was in very short supply but we eventually found an open barn with a well placed straw bale where we could have a well earned rest.
The path around Misery Farm no longer crosses in from of the property but goes around to the west of the small lake. This is a very pleasant spot and why anyone would give it such a name is a bit of a mystery. It seems to have now had a name change and is known as Lower Watercombe Farm, but not on the OS map. It sleeps 14 and is available to rent by the week http://www.classic.co.uk/holiday-cottage/desc-3001.html. It's worth taking a look.
Shortly after reaching the end of the road from Misery Farm we joined the Jubilee Trail for a short time, leaving it at Fryer Mayne Wood. By now the wind had started to strengthen quite considerably bringing the leaves down from the trees. Just before this track joins the A352 into Broadmayne there is another little mystery and abandoned corrugated iron building that may have been an old methodist chapel, but possibly not. There is nothing to give away its original use.
Lunch at the Red Lion, another all day food pub, was all right but it will not become a favourite.
 Fallen leaves |  The Wild Bunch? |  Road from Misery Farm |
 Beyond the Fence |  Mystery Building |
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