| Date: Location: Walk Leader: Participants: Distance: Parking: Lunch: | 30th March 2016 Tarrant Keyneston Peter Peter, Clive, Ray 6.6 miles Small parking area on outskirts of Tarrant Keynston, St Richard's Close Lambs Green Inn ★★★★☆ |
The plan was to park in Charlton Marshall, cross the river and .... well it turned out that although shown clearly on the map as a footpath a boat is needed to cross the river and reach Lophill Farm. So we drove into Tarrant Keyneston where we found a really good spot to park right beside the footpath. This enabled us to follow most of the original plan with a few changes as we went on.
The paths were mostly quite dry but there was a lot of water in the Tarrant River and it would have required some courage to try to drive through the ford leading into Tarrant Ruston. The footbridge was however fine. We found a rather nice spot to sit, in a small copse in the filed looking down towards Ham Corner, where we had our break.
The paths leading across Ashley Wood Golf Club were not well signed. Quite why golf clubs make it so difficult to follow footpaths across their courses is a bit of a mystery. Eventually after a few diversions we found our way to the road and crossed over to pass by Buzbury Rings. We then dropped down into the valley before climbing again to pass Down Barn. The picture below makes you wonder why this merits a mention on the map! It was then a short distance back to the car.
We finished the walk quite early and decided that if we were quick we could get to the Charlton Arms in time for lunch. Arriving there I suddenly remembered I had left my iPad Mini on the roof of the car. So we turned to Tarrant Keyneston. We failed to find the iPad but it was returned later that day thanks to a chance meeting with a friend while we were searching. It's too long a story for all the details.... It does however prove that an iPad mini, in a case, is durable enough to survive hitting the road at speed, being torn out of its case, travelling thirty or so yards down the road and still work perfectly.
Find my iPad is fantastic but only if you can get a signal!
Lunch at the Lambs Green Inn was very good.
The paths were mostly quite dry but there was a lot of water in the Tarrant River and it would have required some courage to try to drive through the ford leading into Tarrant Ruston. The footbridge was however fine. We found a rather nice spot to sit, in a small copse in the filed looking down towards Ham Corner, where we had our break.
The paths leading across Ashley Wood Golf Club were not well signed. Quite why golf clubs make it so difficult to follow footpaths across their courses is a bit of a mystery. Eventually after a few diversions we found our way to the road and crossed over to pass by Buzbury Rings. We then dropped down into the valley before climbing again to pass Down Barn. The picture below makes you wonder why this merits a mention on the map! It was then a short distance back to the car.
We finished the walk quite early and decided that if we were quick we could get to the Charlton Arms in time for lunch. Arriving there I suddenly remembered I had left my iPad Mini on the roof of the car. So we turned to Tarrant Keyneston. We failed to find the iPad but it was returned later that day thanks to a chance meeting with a friend while we were searching. It's too long a story for all the details.... It does however prove that an iPad mini, in a case, is durable enough to survive hitting the road at speed, being torn out of its case, travelling thirty or so yards down the road and still work perfectly.
Find my iPad is fantastic but only if you can get a signal!
Lunch at the Lambs Green Inn was very good.
 Large Fields Surround Tarrant Keyneston |  The Ford, Tarrant Rushton |  The Picturesque Down Barn |
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