Category: Walk reports

Barking station was an unusual meeting place and not straight-forward to get to but 9 Polyramblers managed to get there.  Others were probably busy doing their washing after coming back from the holiday in Cogne and Turin two days before.  We had lovely weather all day with a breeze to cool the hot sunshine.  Our morning walk

Saturday’s walk showed what a beautiful county Hampshire is. Woods with the ground completely covered in wild garlic, fields with sheep & lambs with varying ear arrangements-some at the more usual horizontal angle & some with vertical, sticking up ones like llamas. Lovely buttercup meadows & some small valleys that hadn’t been cultivated recently &…

Fourteen hikers turned out for our walk around Great Missenden. We followed the South Bucks Way and Chiltern Trails. We passed some pretty villages including Little and Great Hampden, Bryant Bottom and Prestwood.  Our walk took us through fields, woodland and meadows. We saw blue bells and, primroses and red kites. We had lunch at…

The club has done this walk on a previous occasion but this was my first visit to the Hadhams and what a fine walk it was. We started by taking the 351 bus for a 30 minute white knuckle ride through attractive half timbered villages before alighting at Little Hadham. The weather was overcast but pleasant for…

A respectable  16 of us assembled at Tottenham Hale station on a chilly and overcast morning. Our route followed  the Lea navigation, initially leafy and almost rural as it passes through Clapton. There was plenty of bird activity with sets of ducklings and coots with the occasional predatory heron on the lookout for a snack.…