Thursday 10 March 2011 - about an hour's stroll - with Mick and Sharon
No deer, primroses just beginning to flower.
Turn right from farm gate, along road to the byway to Pentumpkin, and continue past the house, with its sign saying something along the lines of 'Harley-Davidsons only, jap bikes will be pulverised'. Onward past a couple of houses with distinctly noisy dogs, following the track round to the right. You can go into the reserve through a gate, and wander among the primroses which are just beginning to flower.
Afgter visiting this reserve, complete with a ruined building in the middle, you turn right and return to the main road by the footpath which emerges just after the Pentumpkin track. Turn right and back to the farm.
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Doward Farm to King Arthur's Cave.
Saturday 5 March 2011 - Leigh and Rita with dogs, Dan and Sara with Isaac and Rose, Chloé and Darren with Finn, Esther and Adrian with Joseph, Sharon and Mick, and me.
Followed along the road for a good way by Camilla the cat.
So - turned right along the road from the farm, past the byway to Pentumpkin and the narrow footpath on the left, past a cottage with chickens, and through a gate. We followed the path and probably ended up at King Arthur's cave, eventually turning past a disused quarry, before coming out near the road to a youth campsite and back to the road.
Leigh and Rita made it down to the river, but we were a little warier with the kids, and a little unsure of map-reading among the trees!
Followed along the road for a good way by Camilla the cat.
So - turned right along the road from the farm, past the byway to Pentumpkin and the narrow footpath on the left, past a cottage with chickens, and through a gate. We followed the path and probably ended up at King Arthur's cave, eventually turning past a disused quarry, before coming out near the road to a youth campsite and back to the road.
Leigh and Rita made it down to the river, but we were a little warier with the kids, and a little unsure of map-reading among the trees!
Friday, March 11, 2011
Redbrook - Penallt and back with small children.
Sunday 6 March 2011
From Redbrook near Monmouth to Penallt We parked in a large car park, but to get to the Boat Inn we had to cross the river Wye on an iron footbridge next to the old viaduct. We followed a flat path by the river, then up a steep waymarked path which eventually came out near Penallt old church. We took the small road back down the hill past a large stone labelled the coffin stone.
Since we had a six-year-old and a five-year-old walking with us and one 17 month-old on mum's or dad's back, progress was fairly slow, and we cut the 5 km walk even shorter in order to get back to the holiday house for lunch.
From Redbrook near Monmouth to Penallt We parked in a large car park, but to get to the Boat Inn we had to cross the river Wye on an iron footbridge next to the old viaduct. We followed a flat path by the river, then up a steep waymarked path which eventually came out near Penallt old church. We took the small road back down the hill past a large stone labelled the coffin stone.
An interesting alternative local name for the stone is 'The Coffin Stone', and local tradition states that funeral processions on the way to Penallt Old Church used to pause at the spot and rest the coffin on the stone. An additional roadside 'coffin stone' can be found a little further north on the same road. Interestingly Penallt Church formerly acted as a chapel-of-ease to St Nicholas in Trellech until Penallt became a separate parish in 1887.
Since we had a six-year-old and a five-year-old walking with us and one 17 month-old on mum's or dad's back, progress was fairly slow, and we cut the 5 km walk even shorter in order to get back to the holiday house for lunch.
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