| Date: Location: Walk Leader: Participants: Distance: Parking: Lunch: | 3rd August 2016 Shapwick to Lambs Green Peter Peter, Ray plus Rob at lunch time 7.4 miles Transport provided by Romy Coffee Club Restaurant, Westbourne ★★★ |
This was bit of an unusual walk on several counts; there were only two of us, we were chauffeured to the start point, it was a "one way walk", we had lunch somewhere we had never been on a walk before!
Romy kindly dropped us at Shapwick where we found the road we wanted was closed and quite a few members of East Dorset Ramblers stopped to ask us for directions. After a short chat with the Ramblers walk leader we strolled past the church and towards the river where we turned east. It was pretty easy to follow the Stour Valley Way markers though we kept to the field edges as close to the river as we could. We met very few people on the way one exception being enny, a friend from the East Dorset Croquet Club.
It was a very pleasant day with quite a lot of sun but a cool breeze keeping it quite comfortable for walking.
As we were following the river it was mostly an easy flat walk and though there were several styles they were all easy ones. We may have left it a bit late but we sought a place to sit for our break in vain until we were almost at the car park by Sandy Lane, a very popular dog walking area. All Fools Lane (Path) is certainly not a lane in the normal sense just a quite narrow footpath leading up between the trees and bushes and leading into Pamphill. We passed the small and unusual Vine Inn, resisting the temptation to stop for an ale in the garden, and dropped down back to the river before taking the footbridge across to Netherwood Mead. There was a sign warning people of the health risks of ingesting any of the river water but that did not seem to deter everyone from swimming in it!
Rob drove past us as we were about 200 yards from the Lambs Green Inn - wonderful timing - and the three of us then drove back to Westbourne where we had an excellent lunch at the Coffee Club.
A very good day out.
Romy kindly dropped us at Shapwick where we found the road we wanted was closed and quite a few members of East Dorset Ramblers stopped to ask us for directions. After a short chat with the Ramblers walk leader we strolled past the church and towards the river where we turned east. It was pretty easy to follow the Stour Valley Way markers though we kept to the field edges as close to the river as we could. We met very few people on the way one exception being enny, a friend from the East Dorset Croquet Club.
It was a very pleasant day with quite a lot of sun but a cool breeze keeping it quite comfortable for walking.
As we were following the river it was mostly an easy flat walk and though there were several styles they were all easy ones. We may have left it a bit late but we sought a place to sit for our break in vain until we were almost at the car park by Sandy Lane, a very popular dog walking area. All Fools Lane (Path) is certainly not a lane in the normal sense just a quite narrow footpath leading up between the trees and bushes and leading into Pamphill. We passed the small and unusual Vine Inn, resisting the temptation to stop for an ale in the garden, and dropped down back to the river before taking the footbridge across to Netherwood Mead. There was a sign warning people of the health risks of ingesting any of the river water but that did not seem to deter everyone from swimming in it!
Rob drove past us as we were about 200 yards from the Lambs Green Inn - wonderful timing - and the three of us then drove back to Westbourne where we had an excellent lunch at the Coffee Club.
A very good day out.
 St Bartholomew, Shapwick |  River Stour |  View From White Mill Bridge |
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