Geocaches - 38
Drink - Hobsons Old Henry at Bishopstone Folly
A chance to revisit the Ridgeway - a previously completed Long Distance Path.
In the six years that have passed, new Geocache trails have been laid in the section between Fox Hill (famous for the aerial mast and what must be the biggest and remotest of the Indian restaurant pub conversions at the Burj) and Waylands Smithy, a neolithic long barrow.
The walking is easy - the Ridgeway is at its most track like - almost a metalled road. Some people have taken to setting up camp and living on it. Should the economists be believed, we will all need to be thinking that way.
To the North, there are expansive views over Swindon, to the South sweeping fields of unripe wheat.
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| Views North |
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| Views South |
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| Treasure, for when you are bored of Views |
I leave the Ridgeway to complete a loop of some very new Geocaches, before dropping down to the valley floor and walking the timeless villages of Ashbury, Idstone and Bishopstone - where it would have been the Royal Oak for a half of Arkells, if I was to show consistency with my previous visit.
Blogfans will know that I have been prepared over the last months. No pubs, so freezer blocks in my rucksack, this week nestling against a Hobsons Old Henry. Bishopstone Folly - a gap of Strip Lynchets providing access back to the Ridgeway looks as good a spot as any.
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| One more Cache and Lunch |
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| Bless Me |
Interesting to see this blog after having completed much the same route as you, on the same day. And some great pictures.
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Enjoyed reading your logs... such tenacity. No way would I have spent 30 mins at little bridges :-)
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