Date: Location: Walk Leader: Participants: Distance: Parking: Lunch: | 5 April 2017 Durweston Peter Peter, Clive, Ray 7.4 miles Village Hall Charlton Inn ★★☆☆☆ |
We turned right out of the rather grand school gates, walked a short way up New Road and then onto a footpath across the field. This is not very well marked and some deviations were required as it was broken up into smaller areas by electric fences. We found a very pleasant spot to sit in the middle of the gallops before reaching Beech Clump and luckily no riders decided to test their skills while we were there.
It was a little difficult deciding whether to walk along the edge of the field where there is a nice broad path or along the rather narrow fenced off footpath. We ended up doing a bit of each. At Quarleston we walked around the edge of the field as it looked as if it had been newly sown and there was no obvious path across the field. The dovecot above the entrance to the house (approximate position marked on map) is quite an amazing construction well worth a look. |
There was a minor complaint when two of the team realised that the leader had not been entirely correct in saying it was all downhill back to Durweston but in truth the gentle slope to Websley Farm was hardly worth a mention. It's not quite clear where or how we missed the footpath but we ended up walking through the grounds of Knighton House Schoolwhich was almost deserted at the time.
We were back at the car in good time to try the Charlton Inn for their £5 over 65s lunch. It was OK but the portion of liver in the liver and bacon dish was decidedly small.
This walk followed most of the route of one of Rob's walks from December 2010, the first walk that Ray missed as a result of his radiotherapy. It seems so long ago...