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19-04-2009, 09:12 PM
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Look like two very nice walks  
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19-04-2009, 09:17 PM
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Ooooooooooooh K fabulous pics  Wanted to be there
Nice Foxy, but please, no complaining at all even though just a tiny bit, regarding this rare and wonderful weather
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19-04-2009, 09:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Pippa  Ooooooooooooh K fabulous pics Wanted to be there
Nice Foxy, but please, no complaining at all even though just a tiny bit, regarding this rare and wonderful weather | Hi Pippa,
not a bad place at all, considering this used to be a pit spoilheap site
got several of these in my area, but this would seem the best one
the sunshine certainly helped today
not got the same grandeur as foxy's walk but its got its own good points |
20-04-2009, 05:18 PM
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| | | Re: where did you walk today?
Apologies to Pippa - I walked for about 13 miles today without once going through a wood!
I had a lovely walk just NE of Luton, where there is some suprisingly nice countryside and a couple of Nature Reserves at Barton Hills and Pegsdon Hill. It was cold and a bit foggy at first, but it soon became a warm and sunny day, though a bit hazy.  Near Lilley - you can see that it started quite foggy this morning  View from Galley Hill, Luton - the fog now clearing  Barton Hills  Barton Hills  These Dartmoor ponies are used to graze the Barton Hills Nature Reserve  From Barton Hills looking over Barton and beyond  Deacon Hill behind Pegsdon  Looking back from the path up Pegsdon Hill  The path up Pegsdon Hill  The view from my lunch-spot on Pegsdon Hill  The view from Deacon Hill  Returning to Lilley
I saw my first Speckled Wood butterfly of the year, my first Whitethroat of the year, and my first Yellow Archangel of the year. I saw a Red Kite at Pegsdon, and two more later on. |
20-04-2009, 05:48 PM
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Very interesting pictures, Pete. I've never been to Bedfordshire and I had always assumed it was flat as a billiard table |
20-04-2009, 06:14 PM
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Parts of it are, treecreeper! But in the south of the county where I live, there is a small section of the Chiltern Hills. I should have said that where I walked today is pretty much the north-eastern tip of the Chilterns.
Curiously enough, a while ago a magazine or paper article described a walk in this area around Barton Hills as the best walk in England south of the Peak District! I think people who've visited Dartmoor or Exmoor, for example, might disagree, and I think there are nicer walks in the Chilterns! |
20-04-2009, 11:29 PM
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20-04-2009, 11:47 PM
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21-04-2009, 07:42 AM
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Lovely photos and a very pleasant area
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21-04-2009, 07:49 AM
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I cannot walk very far now but I do like the coast walk from Morte Ho to Lee
(The Grampus Inn ) also from the C&CC site at Damage Barton there is a shorter walk through a wooded valley alongside a stream to Bennets Mouth.
This is packed with wild flowers and birds and in the evening with Owls, Bats and signs of Badgers. The Larks trilling all day in the blue sky are a bonus
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