| Date: Location: Walk Leader: Participants: Distance: Parking: Lunch: | 9th December 2015 Edmondsham Clive Clive, Peter, Ray Rob 6.9 miles By the old village pump Lambs Green Inn ★★▲ |
Once again Wednesday was there best day of the week. There had however been a lot of rain recently and the tracks through the fields were a bit muddy in places. On the other hand the sections through the woods were remarkably dry.
We missed the first turn off the road and ended up walking along the northern edge of Birches Copse before rejoining the main path, but this was fine. The stretch through West Farm is interesting as there are a few unusual farm animals to be seen beside the path. You can see the animals or book one of the farm's lodges if you visit their web site. http://www.westfarmholidays.co.uk/html/animals.html
We then passed the somewhat strangely named Ninney-cox Wood before reaching the Remedy Oak Club House where we found some comfortable felled trees to sit on while we had some refreshments.
We stopped to have a look in the church at Woodlands and to take a group photo in front of the old schoolhouse.
A little care is needed to follow the paths after this point and it is not unknown for those relying on paper maps to wander off the path. The small section make blue on the map appears to be a proper path but it is not actually signed and the signed route goes through Maldry Wood with trees on both sides not the field as suggested by the map.
On the way back to Edmondsham there is quite a steep drop down a field that, today, was quite wet and muddy. Whether this was a good reason for Rob to try out "mud skiing" or not is open to question. Sad to say it was a bit of a wash out - for Rita that is!
There was, once again, a considerable difference between the 8.25 miles recorded by OS MapFinder and the 6.9 miles shown on Anquet.
We drove back to the Lambs Green Inn for lunch where we had chicken and leak pie for the second week in a row and we were not disappointed.
Another good day out.
Looking back I found that Clive covered much of this walk on 5th April 2006 but, being much younger in those days we journeyed all the way south into the edge of Ferndown Forest covering nearly 9.5 miles.
On 27th of October 2010 Rob also covered much of the same ground but we went to the Albion in Romford for lunch then and that walk was recorded as 7.1 miles.
We missed the first turn off the road and ended up walking along the northern edge of Birches Copse before rejoining the main path, but this was fine. The stretch through West Farm is interesting as there are a few unusual farm animals to be seen beside the path. You can see the animals or book one of the farm's lodges if you visit their web site. http://www.westfarmholidays.co.uk/html/animals.html
We then passed the somewhat strangely named Ninney-cox Wood before reaching the Remedy Oak Club House where we found some comfortable felled trees to sit on while we had some refreshments.
We stopped to have a look in the church at Woodlands and to take a group photo in front of the old schoolhouse.
A little care is needed to follow the paths after this point and it is not unknown for those relying on paper maps to wander off the path. The small section make blue on the map appears to be a proper path but it is not actually signed and the signed route goes through Maldry Wood with trees on both sides not the field as suggested by the map.
On the way back to Edmondsham there is quite a steep drop down a field that, today, was quite wet and muddy. Whether this was a good reason for Rob to try out "mud skiing" or not is open to question. Sad to say it was a bit of a wash out - for Rita that is!
There was, once again, a considerable difference between the 8.25 miles recorded by OS MapFinder and the 6.9 miles shown on Anquet.
We drove back to the Lambs Green Inn for lunch where we had chicken and leak pie for the second week in a row and we were not disappointed.
Another good day out.
Looking back I found that Clive covered much of this walk on 5th April 2006 but, being much younger in those days we journeyed all the way south into the edge of Ferndown Forest covering nearly 9.5 miles.
On 27th of October 2010 Rob also covered much of the same ground but we went to the Albion in Romford for lunch then and that walk was recorded as 7.1 miles.
 Crossing the Golf Course |  Miscanthus or Elephant Grass |  In Front Of Woodlands School |
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