Clumber Park and Sherwood Forest

We have just spent 10 days in Clumber walking round the woodland paths, an average of 8kms on each walk. The National Trust café has good 'café con leche' (latte) as does the Costa coffee shop in Worksop.

The avenue of lime trees,planted in 1840, is 2 miles (3.2kms) long and the longest in Europe. There are 1,296 common limes in a double avenue each side of the main road through Clumber Park.
We also had a short walk from Edwinstowe to the Major Oak. This is the oldest oak tree in Britain at 1,000 years old, already mature when Robin Hood was living in Sherwood Forest.

The lime tree avenue

and

The Major Oak

The Templer Way

We walked part of the Templer Way near Stover in glorious sunshine. (The name commemorates a local family.) There were views across to Dartmoor, and an intriguing village link sign! An 8km walk in 2 hours, including the stops for photos and a coffee break at Sampson's Farm.

Dartmoor:- From left to right; Rippon Tor, Saddle Tor and Haytor.

The hand painted village link sign near Teigngrace. Naiads are water nymphs, dryads are wood nymphs and napaeads are satyrs!!

Short walks

Other committments have left less time for walking than normal. Most walks recently have been of around 5km, but up and down hill and over some rough ground. However short walks are better than no walks and we have enjoyed ourselves. It will soon be time to try out our new boots. Terry does not think that his will do another Camino and although mine are not as well worn a new pair seemed sensible. Same style, so hopefully we'll have no problems. Then we'll finish most of our training in the older pairs.