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Wellesbourne is a large village in central Warwickshire, on the Avon. Almost big enough to be a town, it has a working watermill that I still haven't got around to visiting! There is an aerodrome used by light aircraft and gliders which also houses a small RAF museum and a fully functional Avro Vulcan V-bomber.
The walk is mostly on pretty flat ground as it is in the vale of the river Avon.
This is where we leave the village, over a footbridge.
The path is easy enough to follow, it must be used far more than others I've tried to find in the past!
Through here and along the hedge
Animal hole: just the one. Fox?
A bit further on in a spinney, lots of holes.
I wouldn't like to bring my car through here!
There were some employees from Warwickshire County Council cutting stuff in this wood.
Footpath still easy to follow.
Along this old hedgerow
This old barn has dove holes in it's gable.
not easy to see in the shadow, sorry!
I don't know what was going on here, making charcoal maybe?
This is where we cross the busy Warwick to Cirencester road. Warwick is pronounced Warrick; Cirencester... I don't know! I've heard siren-sester and also sirren-ster.
Path is in there somewhere.
This old stone culvert carries the minor road to Charlecote.
The tower of Hampton Lucy church in the distance.
The path passes a new plantation. Stopped to brew up and eat lunch just after here.
Saw this sluice gate in a drainage ditch.
Pleasant pool.
Through this kissing gate.
Across more fields to this kissing gate by an old oak that leads out onto the lane.
Towards Charlecote.
Some garden shed!
The cottage to which it belongs.
Houses in Charlecote
Phone box and bus shelter.
More houses
The church in Charlecote is a Victorian fantasy but this stone in the churchyard dates from around 1700.
The church.
The entrance to Charlecote park, now a National Trust property.
That William Shakespeare was a very naughty boy!
The stile is opened by pushing down on the bars on the right. They are pivoted and counterweighted on the left-hand side.
Bridge over the mighty river Avon
Old pollard willows
The mighty river Avon! (To be fair it has been very dry for weeks)
Back in Wellesbourne: The church was mostly rebuilt in Victorian times but the tower is 14th century and this end wall of the south aisle and part of the arcade inside are from around 1200.
I was planning to have a pint in the Stag's Head but it was unfortunately closed!
I had a nice pint of ale in the Waterman at Hatton, near Warwick.
The walk is mostly on pretty flat ground as it is in the vale of the river Avon.
This is where we leave the village, over a footbridge.
The path is easy enough to follow, it must be used far more than others I've tried to find in the past!
Through here and along the hedge
Animal hole: just the one. Fox?
A bit further on in a spinney, lots of holes.
I wouldn't like to bring my car through here!
There were some employees from Warwickshire County Council cutting stuff in this wood.
Footpath still easy to follow.
Along this old hedgerow
This old barn has dove holes in it's gable.
not easy to see in the shadow, sorry!
I don't know what was going on here, making charcoal maybe?
This is where we cross the busy Warwick to Cirencester road. Warwick is pronounced Warrick; Cirencester... I don't know! I've heard siren-sester and also sirren-ster.
Path is in there somewhere.
This old stone culvert carries the minor road to Charlecote.
The tower of Hampton Lucy church in the distance.
The path passes a new plantation. Stopped to brew up and eat lunch just after here.
Saw this sluice gate in a drainage ditch.
Pleasant pool.
Through this kissing gate.
Across more fields to this kissing gate by an old oak that leads out onto the lane.
Towards Charlecote.
Some garden shed!
The cottage to which it belongs.
Houses in Charlecote
Phone box and bus shelter.
More houses
The church in Charlecote is a Victorian fantasy but this stone in the churchyard dates from around 1700.
The church.
The entrance to Charlecote park, now a National Trust property.
That William Shakespeare was a very naughty boy!
The stile is opened by pushing down on the bars on the right. They are pivoted and counterweighted on the left-hand side.
Bridge over the mighty river Avon
Old pollard willows
The mighty river Avon! (To be fair it has been very dry for weeks)
Back in Wellesbourne: The church was mostly rebuilt in Victorian times but the tower is 14th century and this end wall of the south aisle and part of the arcade inside are from around 1200.
I was planning to have a pint in the Stag's Head but it was unfortunately closed!
I had a nice pint of ale in the Waterman at Hatton, near Warwick.
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