Category: Walk reports
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WRAYSBURY CIRCULAR – SUNDAY 26 MARCH
Despite the poor weather forecast, eleven members and two guests assembled at Wraysbury station on Sunday 26th March for a circular walk of 4.5 miles around a quiet corner of the County of Berkshire. Leaving the station car park, the group crossed the Colne Brook by a bridge and then followed it along a muddy path adjacent…
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OTFORD TO EYNSFORD – SATURDAY 25 MARCH
This walk was laid on at very short notice to replace a walk that had had to be cancelled because the leader was recovering from covid. An old Poly Rambler favourite, it was offered because it didn’t require much planning and is always a lovely walk. After the deluge of the day before, the weather…
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LOOP WALK – BEXLEY TO PETTS WOOD – 19 MARCH
We were surprised when, on taking a turning out of Bexley station, we found the riverside walk closed off due to works. It had been open one week before, with no notice displayed about future closure. Teaming up, we planned an alternative, to bypass the problem and get back on our route. A bit of…
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GREAT MISSENDEN TO AMERSHAM – SATURDAY 11 MARCH
There were twenty three of us on this 10 mile walk over the hills to Amersham. I was delighted to see so many ramblers come along after almost three days of gloomy wet weather which didn’t clear until Friday afternoon. We set off from the railway station passing the 14th c. parish Church of St…
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Pitsea to Chalkwell (Essex) – Fourth leg of Thames Estuary Path – 4 March
Twenty two Poly Ramblers turned up for the fourth and final part of the Thames Estuary Path – or so they thought! It was a grey, cold day and, although the sky got quite dark, rain did not materialise. And neither did the mud I experienced in the first field when I did the recce. …

