Parking in Cricklade proved trickier on Sunday than Saturday, so we were round the corner from yesterdays's location and had to rewalk a couple of hundred yards, but we were soon on our way out of Cricklade. The much needed by-pass is very noisy, so it took a while to get away from the noise.
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Cricklade |
The first part of the walk through the edge of the town and the parkland was very pleasant, but as we followed the river, the paths became more challenging with uneven surfaces and very narrow gaps between the crops and the river edge vegetation.
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Clockwise from top left - a nice open path, not a nice path, a swan on the Thames, "where's Glynis?" |
We reached the pretty village of Castle Eaton too soon for lunch
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Castle Eaton |
It was a day for nature, beautiful white and pink hawthorn, damselflies and butterflies and crops, rape seed, barley and wheat.
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Clockwise from top left - a damsel fly, a butterfly, nice woodland path, another footbridge |
For 5 miles we followed the river, when we were ready for lunch, the path and river parted company and since we wanted to have our first packed lunch on the river bank, we took a short diversion to a road bridge over the Thames.
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Thames views, one with lovely pink and white hawthorn blossom |
For most of the afternoon we walked through varied paths including a mile up the edge of the A361. Regular readers of our blogs will know that we have a 'thing' about photographing unusual items in people's gardens - how about this soldier, keeping an eye on things?
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Clockwise from top left - varied paths and "halt; who goes there!" |
Finally we rejoined the river just before Lechlade, seeing our first boats on the navigable Thames, and the famous 'halfpenny' bridge at Lechlade - originally a toll bridge charging (you've guessed it) a halfpenny until the locals revolted and the toll was abandoned .
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Lechlade |
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