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Some of you people make me a bit jealous with your expeditions to the great outdoors and exotic locations. So I thought I'd post a couple of pics of the countryside we in one of the most densely populated counties in one of the most densely populated countries in the world have to make do with!
This is a walk I took yesterday, about 5 1/2 miles around the village of Tanworth-in-Arden. The route is not of my own devising but is from a book called Walker's Britain, published by Pan Books/Ordnance Survey.
Excuse the picture quality, I was using a camera phone, the light was not good and I'm a poor photographer!
Starting point: The village of Tanworth-in-Arden.
This is where I left the confines of the village and took to a public footpath across the fields.
I emerged onto a lane and crossed over into this double avenue of poplars. It forms the first part of a 1 1/2 mile approach to Umberslade Hall.
After half a mile or so the tarmac ends and I crossed this stile onto the very worn old gravel track.
This being North Warwickshire and the land being clayey, it can get a bit sticky underfoot. Fortunately we haven't had much rain lately.
This pair of stone gateposts, about 60 feet apart, must have supported a magnificent set of iron gates at one time.
The view over the fields from the track.
Umberslade Hall: It is now divided into flats.
I came over the stile from the track on the right and then went along this lane for a few hundred yards. Umberslade Hall is to the left, on the opposite side of the lane to the stile.
I took to the fields again over this stile.
Continued in part II.
This is a walk I took yesterday, about 5 1/2 miles around the village of Tanworth-in-Arden. The route is not of my own devising but is from a book called Walker's Britain, published by Pan Books/Ordnance Survey.
Excuse the picture quality, I was using a camera phone, the light was not good and I'm a poor photographer!
Starting point: The village of Tanworth-in-Arden.
This is where I left the confines of the village and took to a public footpath across the fields.
I emerged onto a lane and crossed over into this double avenue of poplars. It forms the first part of a 1 1/2 mile approach to Umberslade Hall.
After half a mile or so the tarmac ends and I crossed this stile onto the very worn old gravel track.
This being North Warwickshire and the land being clayey, it can get a bit sticky underfoot. Fortunately we haven't had much rain lately.
This pair of stone gateposts, about 60 feet apart, must have supported a magnificent set of iron gates at one time.
The view over the fields from the track.
Umberslade Hall: It is now divided into flats.
I came over the stile from the track on the right and then went along this lane for a few hundred yards. Umberslade Hall is to the left, on the opposite side of the lane to the stile.
I took to the fields again over this stile.
Continued in part II.
