11/10/11 - Cookham and Winter Hill

From 100 Walks in Berkshire and Oxfordshire
Distance - 4.5 Miles
Caches - None Found

Cookham

Cookham is that nice that Ulrika has made it her home.  I have driven through it once before and been impressed enough that I would come for a weekend away.  Today, there is only time for a quick walk around the Thames and back up Winter Hill.

Park at the free parking and head out to the Thames to see all the posh houses with their boat access on the other side.  Find the answer to the question "When is a pub not a pub?".  On the OS map, there is the beautiful blue symbol of a pint glass but on reaching the People's republic of Cock Marsh, I am confronted with a rather posh ice cream parlour.  And its shut at 6pm.

Have to make do with a skirt around the viking funeral pyre.

Dead Sailor

Bear South and can see Winter Hill.  This is a great view point to overlook the Thames and the resevoirs.  Nice paths through farmland and up the side.

Crop rotation in the 14th Century was considerably more widespread after....

Guess where I am going?

It's then a straightforward return over the golf course, avoiding flying balls.

The River Thames continues to be a theme for 2011 walking, having taken in Goring, Richmond and Shepperton in recent weeks.  Must find the source one day....