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Winterborne Zelston

26/4/2018

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26 April 2018
Winterborne Zelston
6.6 miles
Beside the curch
Coach and Horses Wimborne  ★★★★☆
There is not a lot of room to park by the church but we always seem to be lucky here.  The copper beeches were just coming into leaf and looked lovely in the sun.
We started up the road and walked, very carefully, across the A31 to join the footpath just opposite.
The small wood where we turn west at West Morden Farm always seems to have a good, if not exceptional,  display of bluebells as May approaches and this year was no exception.
Further along Morden Lane we were intrigued to see the longest "sausage rolls" of bales we have ever seen.
There were rape fields in full bloom wherever we looked and we remarked how this relatively new crop has changed the look of the countryside at this time of year.  This was a virtually unknown crop "when we were boys"!
Suitable seating was in very short supply and we ended up sitting on a rather narrow fence.  Thank goodness for the spongy padding we keep in our rucksacks.
The walk was pretty good underfoot, in fact better than we had expected until....we crossed the road just before Winterborne Muston.  The "pipe bridge" got us over the stream but the path the other side was under water and we had to resort to clambering through the hedge and walking along the field edge.
The path after this point is none to clear and is not as shown on the OS map.  There are some signs but they are not that easy to follow.  There is a sign showing path heading south towards the road and it might have made our lives easier to have followed this.  It seems impossible to follow the path round the edge of the farm approaching Winterborne Zelston and it appears to have been re-routed between the farm buildings. 
Having arrived safely back at the car we drove into Wimborne for our old favourite gammon, eggs and chips at the Coach and Horses.
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St Mary, Winterborne Zelston
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Bluebells
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The Long Bales
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Grey and Yellow
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Pipe Bridge
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Water Weed
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