| Date: Location: Walk Leader: Participants: Distance: Parking: Lunch: | 7th May 2014 Tarrant Hinton Ray Ray, Clive, Peter 8.3 miles Tarrant Hinton Church. There is very limited space here. Lambs Green Inn ★★ |
Over the last few weeks we have gradually started to see the countryside coming to life. As we started out on this walk there was a strong sent of Hawthorne. It's easy to smell why it's nicknamed May!
The weather was changeable, warm in the sun, cool in the breeze and wet in the rain. We only had a couple of fairly heavy showers and they did nothing to dampen our enjoyment of the day.
There were numerous rape fields some in full bloom already. The contract of the sun on the fields and a dark sky made for some interesting sights particularly across Hinton Down. Just past here we spotted quite a few bluebells in the woods.
St Mary's church at Tarrant Gunville, which dates back to Norman times, has a very nice little porch which provided a handy spot to sit and have our morning break out of the wind. It also has a quite intriguing grave stone in memory of W h Hitchcock once the rector who gifted the organ to the church.
There are some wonderful old beech trees along the northern edge of Eastbury Park. Turning south and past Little Wood there are lots more bluebells and vast numbers of Ransomes.
Approaching Chettle house we saw quite a number of caravans in the site that is close to the house. It looks very basic!
We then meandered our way, mostly along pleasant field edges, back to Tarrant Hinton.
We stopped off for lunch on our way home at The Lambs Green Inn she, as usual for a Wednesday, it was pie day. We went for the steak and kidney pudding with chips and vegetables for £9.95.
The weather was changeable, warm in the sun, cool in the breeze and wet in the rain. We only had a couple of fairly heavy showers and they did nothing to dampen our enjoyment of the day.
There were numerous rape fields some in full bloom already. The contract of the sun on the fields and a dark sky made for some interesting sights particularly across Hinton Down. Just past here we spotted quite a few bluebells in the woods.
St Mary's church at Tarrant Gunville, which dates back to Norman times, has a very nice little porch which provided a handy spot to sit and have our morning break out of the wind. It also has a quite intriguing grave stone in memory of W h Hitchcock once the rector who gifted the organ to the church.
There are some wonderful old beech trees along the northern edge of Eastbury Park. Turning south and past Little Wood there are lots more bluebells and vast numbers of Ransomes.
Approaching Chettle house we saw quite a number of caravans in the site that is close to the house. It looks very basic!
We then meandered our way, mostly along pleasant field edges, back to Tarrant Hinton.
We stopped off for lunch on our way home at The Lambs Green Inn she, as usual for a Wednesday, it was pie day. We went for the steak and kidney pudding with chips and vegetables for £9.95.
Spot the owl box
Ransome
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Rape flowers - sun and shade
W H Hitchcock
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St Mary's Tarrant Gunville
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