Your walk today...

[PeteXXX]

Out before 05:00, locally, for a decent walk with the dogs as they'd not been properly walked for a few days because of the heat.. .. Nobody else around walking but a surprising number of cars while I was by the main road. I had to use the path alongside the A508 for 200 yards or so to reach my public footpath of choice..

A Boughton House Folly, with Hawking Tower.

Needs a bit of work but still probably worth ½ a million!

Heading down towards the nature reserve with the dogs still on the leash as I didn't fancy losing them in the sweetcorn (?) field 😂

Back home on 4¾ miles & ready for porridge & a cuppa

 

[PeteXXX]

Lovely walk, yesterday, with my sister, around Wandlebury park and Iron Age fort in the Gog Magog hills, Cambridgeshire.

We were planning on walking from Stapleford, where we'd met up, but we judged it as too hot for crossing open fields to get there and back so we drove to the area and stayed in the cool of the woodland & Iron Age ring dykes.
Wonderful place to visit, IMHO, but likely to be very busy at weekends & holiday periods I think!

The Outer Ring

Thar be bees!!! You've been warned 🐝

The grave of Godolphin Arabian, the father of thoroughbred horses, so I read. 🐎

The Gog farm shop, deli & The Shack café does great, if pricey, food and drinks.
Probably no dearer than most of the similar places but it really was top quality nosh 👌😎

Anyway, I digress. We ended up doing several circuits of the area, meandering around the footpaths & ancient defences.

Probably about 5 miles, give or take, but most pleasurable chatting & catching up with family stuff as we onky meet up a couple of times a year.


Edit: PS 'The Gog' is on OS as Heath Farm. Not trendy enough, I suppose 😋