Walk from - Country Walking Magazine - November 2009
Caches - 5
Got a new geowagon and it needed a test run. Review of old CW magazines and off the Cotswolds it is.
Never been to Nailsworth before. Its better than Tetbury. Park up in a free car park in the town centre and pick up cache 1 of the day, which I assume is located in the garden of the cache owner. Soon have nice paths, working my way to Avening and passing the old mills that put this place on the map.
Stiff climb up Hazel Wood but the paths are glorious.
Time for a breather |
Where's Pippa? |
Farmland all the way from now on. |
Skirt the edges of Chavenage House. Do you remember the Susan Boyle posh Tetbury based lookalike from John Bishop's Britain? This is her gaff. I prefer the links with Cromwell (there is a lake called Cromwell's bath marked on the map) and the English Civil War.
More fields and then Ledgemore Bottom and Longlength Lane. You can always rely on the Cotswolds for vaguely rude sounding place names.
The Bottom before the Longlength |
Impressive - but how do you get their feathers up? |
This just leaves Tetbury Lane before reaching the town. This is my favourite bit of any walk. How should I reward my 9 miles of effort? A pub, a pie? I hit market street and smell the chipper. First, I have to tie Molly up and I leave her with some new friends.
Burst through the door, extract my emergency twenty from its special place and spend 5 minutes looking at the menu before settling on Fish and Chips. Mouth watering, I wait for the little man to finsish battering his fillets to take my order. He tells me to hang on 5 minutes and leaves me drooling. He works with the urgency of a man who knows he has a captive audience and owns the only chipper in town.
Another couple come in. I clock the fella's disappointment as his missus suggests that she'll "just share your chips". Eventually I get served and take them over the road into the little garden.
They were superb..... and should set me up nicely before my bish celebration based ruby tonight.
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