Start: 10:30am @ Rushall Manor Farm, Back Lane, Stanford Dingley (SU582723, RG7 6DS)Description: A favourite walk in West Berkshire. From Rushall Farm we proceed towards the delightful village of Stanford Dingley. From there we walk along the Pang Valley up to Rotten Row. We walk through some mixed farm and forest until we reach the playing fields of Bradfield College where we will have our banana break. We cross the river Pang and then walk through Bradfield and then proceed to cross the river plain and the up the other side of the Pang Valley into forest and woodland until …
Circular walk to Drayton St Leonard returning via Beaconsfield. Grade: Moderate I wasn’t feeling a hundred percent this morning, and it would have been exceedingly easy to just stay at home and not bother, it was frosty outside! I pulled on my big girl pants and got on with it. I arrived at the meeting point to discover that the leader, David, and I were the only ones who had shown up. I was wrapped up nice and warm, layers, woolly hat, gloves, off we went. We had a lovely walk, the frost thawed as we went, the sun came …
Wantage Circular Start: 10:30am @ Wantage, The Beacon (formerly the Civic Hall), Portway (SU397877, OX12 9BX)Description: Regular short walk from Wantage held on the third Thursday of every month. This walk was with The Vale of White Horse group. It was a frosty morning, my car needed deicing before I set off. I had an errand to run in Wantage so this walk tied in nicely with my plans. This was the biggest group I had rambled with so far, there were eighteen of us, and two doggies, a husky and a standard poodle with a very bushy tail. Our …
Start: 10am @ Whitchurch Hill, recreation ground (SU637787, RG8 7PW)Description: anticircular walk including The Almshouses, skirting Woodcote and taking in woods along the way. Today’s walk was with the Henley and Goring group, thirteen ramblers and two doggies, Peanut and Molly. The forecast was for rain around 1pm but it didn’t happen, fortunately. This was a fabulous stroll, some of the paths I recognised from Geocaching many years ago. I discovered a pub In Woodcote I didn’t know existed, but having said that, I have never been in the one I knew about! We looked down on Elvendon Priory and …
Start: 10:30am @ Blewbury, the recreation ground car park, Boham’s Road off the A417 (SU525855, OX11 9HF)Description: Walking up Boham’s Road to the Downs northwards towards Upton and returning across the fields to Blewbury. A great morning for a walk, a group of twelve, and I am starting to see familiar faces now I have been on a few walks. This was familiar territory to me as some of my usual cycling routes. I was conscious that I haven’t done much cycling lately, soon to be rectified! Later in the day I discovered some Geocaching friends had been parked in …
Start: 10:30am @ Wittenham Clumps car park (SU567923, OX14 4QZ)Description: To Little Wittenham, Day’s Lock, Dorchester and Warborough returning via Shillingford and Little Wittenham Wood. It had been sometimes since I visited the clumps and I was looking forward to a revisit. Just a thirty minutes drive to the rendezvous, and there was a good number of people ready to head off, twelve in all I think. It was a glorious day and the views from the clumps were quite spectacular, particularly from the marker indicating the various points.
Start: 10am @ Ewelme, Cow Common car park (SU647911, OX10 6PG)Description: Circular walk to Swyncombe house via Swyncombe downs returning via Ewelme Downs. I’d never been to Ewelme before, a very pretty village. It was a lovely day weather wise, beautiful autumnal colours in the woods. Lots of excellent chat with some very nice people.
Thu 6th 10:00 SU682902 RG9 6EA Moderate 7.5 miles Circular DWNov Swyncombe, the church. Moved from Fri 7 Nov. Following The Ridgewaytowards Watlington, up to Greenfield then Pishill Bottom and Russell’sWater. Returning by way of Cookley Green. My very first Ramblers Walk. An excellent circular walk from St Botolph’s church in Swyncombe, just three of us, Peter, Trevor and me. The weather was fine, warm enough for me to dispense with my fleece. The autumnal colours were amazing. There were quite a few ascents and descents on the walk, and we went at a fairly brisk pace in the main, …
Start: 10:30am @ Rushall Manor Farm, Back Lane, Stanford Dingley (SU582723, RG7 6DS)Description: A favourite walk in West Berkshire. From Rushall Farm we proceed towards the delightful village of Stanford Dingley. From there we walk along the Pang Valley up to Rotten Row. We walk through some mixed farm and forest until we reach the playing fields of Bradfield College where we will have our banana break. We cross the river Pang and then walk through Bradfield and then proceed to cross the river plain and the up the other side of the Pang Valley into forest and woodland until …
Wantage Circular Start: 10:30am @ Wantage, The Beacon (formerly the Civic Hall), Portway (SU397877, OX12 9BX)Description: Regular short walk from Wantage held on the third Thursday of every month. This walk was with The Vale of White Horse group. It was a frosty morning, my car needed deicing before I set off. I had an errand to run in Wantage so this walk tied in nicely with my plans. This was the biggest group I had rambled with so far, there were eighteen of us, and two doggies, a husky and a standard poodle with a very bushy tail. Our …
Start: 10am @ Whitchurch Hill, recreation ground (SU637787, RG8 7PW)Description: anticircular walk including The Almshouses, skirting Woodcote and taking in woods along the way. Today’s walk was with the Henley and Goring group, thirteen ramblers and two doggies, Peanut and Molly. The forecast was for rain around 1pm but it didn’t happen, fortunately. This was a fabulous stroll, some of the paths I recognised from Geocaching many years ago. I discovered a pub In Woodcote I didn’t know existed, but having said that, I have never been in the one I knew about! We looked down on Elvendon Priory and …
Start: 10:30am @ Wittenham Clumps car park (SU567923, OX14 4QZ)Description: To Little Wittenham, Day’s Lock, Dorchester and Warborough returning via Shillingford and Little Wittenham Wood. It had been sometimes since I visited the clumps and I was looking forward to a revisit. Just a thirty minutes drive to the rendezvous, and there was a good number of people ready to head off, twelve in all I think. It was a glorious day and the views from the clumps were quite spectacular, particularly from the marker indicating the various points.