Steeple Barton (River Walk)

 I spent today with my cousins Jake, Luke and Adam. We went to Steeple Barton Church St' Mary's because we saw on the OS map waterfall. We parked outside the church (I can't get a street view picture of the parking but there is a small lay-by there) and headed into the graveyard and followed the worn grass to the end of the graveyard and went through a small gate and followed a narrow path to another small gate leading onto a bridge me and Jake went over the bridge and Luke and Adam decided to go on the over side. Me and Jake walked next to a big lake with a brilliant view of Barton Abbey and a very nice river on the other side and further along we came to another bridge with an arch at one end and a nice scenery walk at the other. we saw a very nice waterfall. We carried on a little further and saw a massive field but we decided to turn back. On the way back we stood outside Barton abbey and heard the bell ringing 12:00. We got back to the car and drove back.

SMILE!!

51.920731,-1.350189 (Google Coords)

N 51 55.244 W 001 21.011 (GPS Coords)

Compton Wynyates (Windmill Walk)

On Saturday morning I said to my Dad lets take the dogs out. It took us a while to get out here because of ice on the roads and at one point on the drive down the car did swerve a little but we arrived in one piece to take this walk. We went through a gate and then along a grass track with bushes and trees on both sides and came to a stile where we climbed over and the dogs got through a gap between the fence post and gate post. after a look round there where 4 gates around us and we carried on straight ahead following the track and after a short walk we saw another gate and stile but there's a fallen down fence which we stepped over and saw an old barn on the over side of the fence so we couldn't get any closer. We carried on and went up 3 stair cases and the windmill started to appear and when we got to the top of the stairs we where breathing heavily because the hill is a bit steep and the stairs are quite high. We walked along the edge of the hill through a small but spacious clump of trees. We then went through another gate. We got to the windmill and looked round at the view there was a brilliant view all around us looking back at where we came from you can see Compton Wynyates house and in the other direction you can see hills and forests (The view is better then what I can write). We then walked back to the car. 

Parking: 

52.076697,-1.525273 (Google Co-ords) 

N52 04.602 W001 31.516 (GPS Co-ords) 

SP 326 421 (Ordnance Survey Grid Reference)

Minster Lovell (Hall Ruins)

We arrived after along drive from Boars Hill we drove around for a while trying to find this place and after awhile we gave up and I asked someone where it is and  he said it was behind the church so we walked down the road to the church. As we walked past the church and saw this enormous structure we just couldn't believe it. It's brilliant although the path was a little slippy inside it was beautiful seeing the arched windows the roof of the hallway entrance just thinking this structure was built about 600 years ago (1440) is just amazing how it still stands we let the dogs off because there was nobody around even though we're not meant to (Please don't tell on us) we took loads of photos I didn't put them all on the this post because it's just to much. I do suggest you visit if you like your ruins it's free to go in and look round but please respect the place the English Heritage does a good job looking after it. If you want more info click this link: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/minster-lovell-hall-and-dovecote/

Parking:

51.800448,-1.534315 (Google Maps)

N 51 48.027 W 001 32.059 (GPS)