Clifton (Track Walk)

This time me and my sister Jennifer went to take the

dogs out at Clifton. We drove towards the railway

bridge and parked up in the lay-by just in front of it from Aynho. After we parked up I got out of the car to get my boots on and there was a very bad smell in the air. After I got my boots on we went in to a VERY muddy track next to the embankment with the railway on and a thin amount of trees between us and the railway. A bit further on we found the viaduct I wanted to find. We walked up to it to take a closer look looking along the side of the arches it looks like it stretched infinitively. Looking at the arches we saw through the holes leading to the end of the viaduct. We walked along the side and saw the arches are numbered and a bit further along found a bit of rail and had a look round the forest on the other side quickly. We saw some ivy through one of the holes and it looked picture perfect when we went as far as we could because we was stopped by a fence and turned back and went the way we came in and carried along the foot path and saw a very nice little river we came up to a 3 point junction in the foot path. Then Jennifer wanted to turn back so we did.When we got back

 to the car I decided to carry on to the Great Western Arms pub (OX17 3PB) great service and very nice people and bit further down the drive to GWA you can buy an ice cream just outside the wharf. Great Western Arms website http://www.great-westernarms.co.uk/contact.html

Google Maps: 51.988597,-1.273304

GPS: N 51 59.316 W 001 16.398 

OS Grid Reference: SP 500 325 

Finmere (Airfield Walk)

We parked up next to the entrance to the Microlight Flying Centre. With the dogs on the leads we headed towards the dual carriageway and turned up the stairs going onto the Bernwood Jubilee Way. We climbed over the stile and along a gravel path towards another stile we walked over the grass towards the runway luckily there where no microlights flying about. Looking up and down the runway I kept thinking about the Bristol Blenheim Mk 1, Mk 4 bombers landing and taking off from here also the occasional Spitfire and Tempest it felt like walking on history. We carried on towards the old air control tower which is what we came here to see. After the lengthy walk over the fields we made it to the control tower. We went inside and saw the state it was in it was like being on

a movie set for the end of the world with the scrap yard outside the windows and the mess inside. The walls and floor were partly covered with moss and a constant dripping in the background but wasn't as annoying as the alarm going off at the radio tower outside. After we finished looking around we got out and 2 helicopters flew over I guess going to Croughton airbase. We headed for the forest in hope of seeing more buildings. In the woods we found a paint ball range good thing no one was around or we would have come home multi-coloured. As we went further in we saw a missile we went to have a closer look and saw some more at the back of the woods. We carried on down through the woods and saw an old plane wings taken off but some of the controls still left inside. After a mess around we went even further through the woods and found a model submarine it was enormous bigger than the plane. We spent ages looking around here and picking up paint ball bullets. We finally gave up after about 3 hours. Click for A bit of history of RAF Finmere.

Geocache: RAF Finmere (GC2V1Q9)

SP 653 323 (OS Grid Reference)

51.985362,-1.051372 (Google Maps)

N 51 59.122 W 001 03.082 (GPS Co-ords)

Lighthorne (Forest Walk)

We parked on a grass verge and looked at the entrance thinking it would be fine to just let the dogs loose so we did, they almost got to the stile but decided instead to have a sniff around. When we got into the forest over the stile and

along the bridge we saw it has had some work done because of the pile of logs and deep muddy tyre tracks we managed to get over them and go straight through the middle of the forest which is where the footpath sign pointed it lead to more muddy tyre tracks and a fence. We followed the fence round for about 2 minutes and ended back where we started so we went off into the forest and went in a different direction where my mum got her foot stuck in a bit of marsh the only bit of marsh in the entire forest unbelievable, after she pulled her foot out we carried on and we called Floyd back because he disappeared we saw a glimpse of him running back then a very sudden loud yelp but he kept coming back we couldn't work out why he yelped because he looked fine nothing wrong with him I said to mum "He must have trod on a thorn or twisted something". We carried on looking around at the beautifully creepy forest with its brown leaves on the floor mixed with the bright green grass and moss covered branches. The tree trunks also had moss climbing up it.After a bit more walking Mum said to me "Look over there" so I did after about 15 - 20 seconds I realised what she wanted  me to see there's sheep in the next field

and no fence in between us and them we thought about calling the dogs back and putting them on their leads but mum said they probably won't notice which we carried on and headed back to the car. We were getting close to the car and we heard trumpets and I then saw horse and riders across the road from us it was "The Hunt" because the noise of the trumpets was spooking the dogs we got to the car and left.

52.191272,-1.514091 (Google Maps) 

N 52 11.475 W 001 30.842 (GPS Co-ords)

Ufton Fields Nature Reserve (Forest Walk)

We arrived at a small road with signs on the side saying "Unsuitable for motor vehicles" but we carried on because the sat-nav told us to. We drove down a bit and found the entrance and car park to Ufton Fields. We parked up and got the dogs on there leads and went in looking at the path ahead saw it was nice and easy so we enjoyed the stroll past the lakes and decided to let the dogs off as you can see from the video further down it didn't go well for me. We carried on just enjoying the silence and the walk the surrounding forest looking through the mixture of trees and the beautiful lakes part way round I noticed a tree growing really odd it looks like it's crawling out of the ground after going round a bit further it started to drizzle on us  a bit and about 10 minutes later it absolutely tipped down on us

 I didn'tbring my waterproof because I was told I wouldn't need it. As we got back to the car it stopped.

Postcode: CV33 9PU

Geaocaches: KNEE BONE (12) (GC32TRH)

Do You Come Here Ufton? (GCN141)

Related Sites: http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/uftonfields

I managed to get the video the right way up.