Tag: walking
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Preston Candover
Well, what a glorious morning, at least it was when I woke up. There was a distinct contrast between what I could see out of the window and the forecast on the TV which showed a great swathe of dark blue moving up the weather map. We could expect heavy rain by mid morning. So…
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West Green
Well what a difference a week makes, it was positively spring-like today. Fingers crossed it continues. We made our way towards Hartley Wintney and, after a bit of a diversion due to roadworks, found the little parking area by West Green House. We started along the track into West Green Common, heading towards Hazeley Bottom,…
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Oakley
Today started with a bit of a dilemma. It was wet, the forecast was for heavy rain (and I checked several, they were all the same). Do we walk or will it be a cafe day? I’m not sure if none of us wanted to admit defeat, or there was just a bit of wishful…
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Dummer
It was a grey, dull day when we set off for our walk around Dummer, although at least it wasn’t raining, yet. We found somewhere to park close to the church and set off on the footpath, which is part of the Wayfarer’s Walk. Passing a little pony in a field, the path rose before…
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Winchfield
Starting at the Barley Mow Slipway carpark, which is across the road from the Barley Mow pub (closed on Mondays and Tuesdays unfortunately), we joined the Basingstoke Canal towpath and walked under the Barley Mow bridge (bit of a theme going on here) to start our walk. Apparently there has been a pub on the…
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Dogmersfield
It’s always good when a walk starts on a long driveway with gate houses on either side. Although to be fair we actually started in a layby with a kebab van. Following the path to the left, just before the gate houses, it didn’t take very long to discover the extremely wet and muddy footpath through the…
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Kempshott to Oakley
Having missed a couple of weeks due to Christmas and too wet to walk weather, we’re back to our Tuesday (or the occasional Monday) walk. There had been an awful lot of rain, and some flooding, over the past couple of weeks, so we chose a walk starting at Old Down Woodland Park, which is at the edge…
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Odiham
It’s that time of year when the weather is just wet, grey and dull. With a forecast of showers we decided to visit Odiham today, where we’d have options to walk on proper pavements into the town. We parked by the canal and set off up the hill towards the town. Pausing by a public footpath sign, just to have…