| Date: Location: Distance: Parking: Lunch: | 25 April 2019 Hamptworth 4.5 miles Near Golf Course Bat and Ball Breamore |
There’s a small lay-by just outside the Hamptworth Golf Club that seems a reasonable place to park. There is an alternative place opposite the Cuckoo Pub from where a parallel path could be taken.
The semi made up track beside the club house leads to Sandford Lodge but our walk took us across a small footbridge and then along the edge of the golf course. This is a very pleasant stroll through the woods with a few bluebells scattered among the trees. Turning west at the “cross roads” we very soon came across masses more bluebells on both sides of the path all through the area of the Langley Wood National Nature Reserve. This was really delightful walking on a day when the sun broke intermittently through the clouds and really brought the woodland to life.
The semi made up track beside the club house leads to Sandford Lodge but our walk took us across a small footbridge and then along the edge of the golf course. This is a very pleasant stroll through the woods with a few bluebells scattered among the trees. Turning west at the “cross roads” we very soon came across masses more bluebells on both sides of the path all through the area of the Langley Wood National Nature Reserve. This was really delightful walking on a day when the sun broke intermittently through the clouds and really brought the woodland to life.
 A Promising Start |  Almost A River |  Proper English Bluebells |
 What A Great Walk |  Any Spot Will Do | We found a well placed log to sit and have refreshments and noticed that a few buebells had even managed to plant themselves on the fallen trunks. |
| After we crossed the road we found ourselves in quite different terrain walking on a damp grassy track on the edge of the fields. We soon entered another wooded area but still quite damp under foot. At Little Mount we joined a path which was signed the Wiltshire Cycleway which came as a bit of a surprise. According to the Wiltshire ~Council web site http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/leisure-wiltshire-cycle-ways the Wiltshire Cycleway does not go anywhere to the east of the A338 - update needed? |  Really? |
From here we were back onto very pleasant wooded paths until we came to some more open fields close to our start point. Here we saw one of the biggest herds of deer we have ever seen on a walk. They were strung out in a long line across the field. As we approached they vanished into the woods through a large gap in the fence and we could see no trace of them as we passed.
A Line Of Deer
This was a rather short walk as a result of feeble feet and gurgling guts.
We then drove to Jim Dawes’ World Garden Plants in West Wellow to pick up a quite large bamboo and then on to The Bat and Ball at Breamore for a very good lunch.
We then drove to Jim Dawes’ World Garden Plants in West Wellow to pick up a quite large bamboo and then on to The Bat and Ball at Breamore for a very good lunch.
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