Dog Walk Explorers: April 2012

Today I, mum and Jennifer (My sister) parked up on the grass just at the beginning of a bridleway. After we got ready we went towards the bridleway we saw a very long grass track with trees and bushes at the side with the sun pelting down it looked very enjoyable. As we walked along the grass track I saw through the trees a sea of yellow rape seed. We came to a gate and went through into a wide open field with rape seed on both sides and a wide grass track with telephone poles running down on the left. When we got to the end of the track we went through a 2nd gate on to a footpath crossroads we carried on in to a wide grass field and kept going towards a farm house. When we got to it we went across the drive and crossed the road into another field with a slight hill and at the top we saw a gate with a grass

field behind we went through and then through another gate on to a tarmac drive and passed some garages and walked next to a pond and then went over a wooden foot bridge and through the first gate but not through the second instead we walked along river Dorn and we got to a very big foot bridge but went through the gate leading into the field and then in to a nature reserve (Keep dogs on leads) as we went through the gate and got past the massive hedge row and came to a brilliant view of hills of green and the village of Wootton nestled between the hills to the far left and seeing a small river through the middle of the reserve. When walking along the nature reserve stick to the top path but if you take the bottom path there are stairs through the gate further on. After we got out of the nature reserve we went in search of a geocache. Found the cache after quite a search

and walked along the wide grass track, Jennifer couldn’t handle Lucy (Little dog) she accidently let go of the lead. We then came to another gate that went down some stairs into Wootton, on to Horseshoe Lane. We headed over to a very nice bridge took some photos and went over along the road until we saw a footpath sign hidden behind a bush that pointed along a drive way we went along and came to another gate (Quite a few so far. More to come)that lead into a wide open field and we could see where we were in the nature reserve so we got a view from both sides still very nice we went round a slight bend and searched for another geocache after finding it we carried on to another gate on to a road and turned right following the

road all the way down and over another small bridge and on the corner of the road there was another footpath sign. We went through the gate and into the woods and let the dogs off so Floyd could play in the river after he finished we went up a dirt track on our left Jennifer went off a bit further to find the geocache at the top and a short time later me and mum heard her shout found it so we signed the log and went on to a small farm track and turned right then a few feet down turned right again into a small wooded area and not long after that turned left in to a field with just blue open sky all around us and a green field in front of us. In the green field there’s a big yellow strip looks as if someone painted on the land scape with a massive brush we followed the yellow grass road for quite a long time until we got to a hedge row and looked for a geocache (List available at the bottom). We found it and then went through the gap in the hedge row and carried on following the yellow grass for a while again and then reached cycle route 5 we followed it until we got to a cross roads in the cycle route and footpath looked for a geocache and followed the off turn into a wooded footpath following it all the way back to the begging of the walk and completing it by buying a drink and some crisps at the sturdy’s castle inn. We took about 3 hours to complete this walk and the weather was great except for the end when it started raining

Post Code: OX5 3EP

Google Maps: 51.869603,-1.328905

GPS: N 51 52.176 W 001 19.734

OS Grid Reference: SP 463 192

Track: http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=jmzktapdlcsktmab

Geocaches:

No. 1 – A Sturdy Walk, No. 2 – A Sturdy Walk

No. 3 – A Sturdy Walk, No. 4 – A Sturdy Walk

No. 5 – A Sturdy Walk, The Gecko’s Perch

No. 6 – A Sturdy Walk, No. 7 – A Sturdy Walk

No. 8 – A Sturdy Walk, No. 9 – A Sturdy Walk

No. 10 – A Sturdy Walk, No. 11 – A Sturdy Walk