My New Year's Eve walk ...
On our last (first) walk around the village we'd noticed this lane and whilst George checked the OS map on his phone a lady on a bicycle stopped and said it's a nice walk up there, so we decided that that would be our next expedition.
However on New Year's Eve George was busy elsewhere and I decided to explore on my own. As you can see we'd had snow!
It was a cold, cold day but with brilliant sunshine
I came across this footpath sign ...
and looking over the gate could see manicured lawns and precision cut hedges ... is it really a public footpath ...
nothing ventured ... nothing gained ... if it is public footpath I should be able to see stile or gate to continue on the path ... I went through the small gate ...
still not sure I should be in here ... it looks amazing!
A beautiful wooden summer house encased in its winter cloths
.... lovely seating areas in the very stylish grounds ...
a pizza oven/bbq to while away and enjoy those summer evenings ...
and a few minutes later I spy the exit from this wonderful place ...
most definitely a path to explore further ... but when the weather is warmer and the ground not so soft and wet ... I turned back to the lane ... I must do a bit of research and find out what this place is.
and continued to walk just a short distance. Not knowing how long the lane was I decided to head back down the lane ...
towards home.
The Old Barn ... was sold early in 2019 for a very tidy sum. I had thought that perhaps the barn may have been converted for holiday lets but appears that it's a private residence ... with a public footpath running through its garden ... not sure that that would be for me.
2 comments:
What beautiful environs you have there, Carol. Are you happily settled in your new home? It's a lovely place, so I hope you'll share more of your walks with us too!
Thank you Val. We've got a few full boxes still to find homes for, surprisingly there was more storage on Still Rockin' than we've currently have here, but we're working on it. It is a lovely place to live out in the countryside and over the past few days have discovered lots more 'footpath' signs. A bit muddy just now but there'll be lots of walks for us to chose from over the summer months if things get back to a 'more normal'.
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