3/10/11 - TOWIE!

Distance - 3.5 Miles
Caches - Err, only 1 found
Walk from 1001 AA Walks - Walk 632

Weald Country Park

Evening walking when away on business is going to have to stop now.... darkness falls too quickly.  Start in good light, end up flapping around in the pitch dark looking for a way out of the park.
I am down working on the Kent/Essex border and find a likely short walk that I should be able to complete before nightfall.  Starts and Ends at a decent boozer as well, which is a bonus.

The walk is in the grounds of Weald Country Park, steeped in history and full of people walking their dogs.  After a tricky navigation of a busy road, I turn right into the visitors centre.  Straight away faced with a common sight on this autumn walks, more deer.  Still they are cute.

Who killed Bambi?

Dissect the two pools and then head into the area of woodland imaginatively entitled "the forest".  Capability Brown may have been great at country gardens but he couldn't come up with decent handles.

There are a few caches here.  None have descriptions and most have several DNFs recently recorded.  I have a bit of a look for a couple and only find one, right at the end of the walk.   The walk is straightforward, a square route on good paths through woodland.  There are plenty of Essex folk out with their dogs.

Nice bit of fresh air after 200 miles of driving and a day in an office.  Pity that the autumn evenings close in too fast.