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Wilverley The New Forest

12/1/2016

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12th January 2016 (Tuesday)
Wilverley
Peter
Peter, Clive, Ray, Rob

Very large car parking area at Wilverley
​Lambs Green Inn ★★▲ especially with 20% off!
Heavy rains in the last few days pushed us to the New Forest once again.  Luckily the day turned out pretty well with only a very few spots of light rain.
We were amazed to find that we saw more people in the first fifteen minutes of this walk than we have seen in the whole of the last ten years walking around the forest.  
The sun was shining through the trees and the woods liked really lovely in the light.  There was also a good mix of deciduous trees and conifers in this area.
Happily the crowds vanished as soon as we turned off the cycle track towards the tea rooms and the old railway track.
The long disused Holmsley Station is quite atmospheric and one can easily imagine a long gone Station Master still keeping an eye on the old platform.  Walking on through the tunnel of trees we turned south just beside the isolated cottage that stands beside the old track and headed back towards Holmsley Inclosure.  There ia once again a good mix of trees here including numerous silver birches which showed up really well in the sunlight.
Crossing the A35 was not too difficult and as we headed into Brownhill Inclosure Rob reminded us that Avon Water might cause a problem.
We decided it was worth having a look and see if we could cross.
When we reached the crossing point we met some foresters clearing the trees they said the water at the ford was up to the top of their wellingtons.
Undaunted the leader set off to find a way across and having made it without any problems he encouraged the others to join him.  He showed that he was made of much sterner stuff than the others who whimped out to a man.  So the fearsome leader had to journey along the rather muddy river bank four times in order to lead his friends safely back. 
It was interesting to see how fast the water was flowing at Wootton Bridge but the foresters had told us that it was far higher on the previous day.
It was a straightforward if somewhat uphill journey back to the car park and we managed to avoid the rain which started not much later.
Another good lunch at the Lambs Green Inn with a 20% voucher from last year.
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Sunlight on the Beeches
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Sunlight on the Conifers
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Holmsley Station
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Silver Birches
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Peter's Bridge - Safe as Houses!
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Rob
21/1/2016 03:38:33 am

The story about the leader being of sterner stuff is just beyond the reasonable comprehension of any sensible person.We had an old man with us whom on seeing the raging torrent below became most agitated and was muttering in a foreign tongue.We thus decided rather than cause him any more angst we would turn back and return him safely to his loved ones.Boom boom.

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