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| Leaving Illston |
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| More campion |
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| Rolleston Hall Lake |
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| Billesdon Coplow |
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| lemon and gold |
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| Seat near Gaulby church |
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| Kings Norton church |
A fine sunny morning, with a coolish breeze. Just over 8 miles in all.
A profusion of wild flowers again.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Illston circular via Rolleston, Gaulby, Kings Norton and Gartree road
This walk follows the same route as on 14 May, but is extended by about a mile. Our first detour was to look at the Rolleston Estate's lake. Then later, from Kings Norton we took the path across the fields just downhill from the church. This took us to the Gartree Road track at the ford. We turned left and followed this back to the crossroads with Burton Overy Lane, and picked up the previous route past Illston Grange.
A fine sunny morning, with a coolish breeze. Just over 8 miles in all.
A profusion of wild flowers again.
Map and details
A fine sunny morning, with a coolish breeze. Just over 8 miles in all.
A profusion of wild flowers again.
Map and details
The oilseed rape is now past its best here, but the buttercups aren't! The cow parsley means there is as much white as yellow around at the moment.
ReplyDeleteLovely walk on a lovely day. The chestnut trees were magnificent. Not only beautiful greenery but pink campions, buttercups.....even the rapeseed looked good!
ReplyDeleteI'm not over keen on the oilseed rape, but the buttercups are wonderful. We have masses of cow parsley along the roadsides too.
ReplyDeleteHarry, it was a delightful walk - I love this season.
ReplyDeleteYou've captured it all beautifully with your lovely photos.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ida - and wonderful to have sun too!
ReplyDeleteI'm not keen on Oilseed Rape either Alison. Horrible pungent stuff.
ReplyDeleteFarmers are supposed to be using a less pungent type of seed now, but I'm not sure thats always the case.
It may be, and some of it doesn't seem to grow quite as tall either.
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