So on Michaelmas evening the usual group set out from Magpie Bridge straight up under the elegant viaduct, very overgrown since last seen. Over to Uppaton Lane in a rather roundabout way and then down to find an unknown path crossing two fields arriving at an old track/lane, another surprise. On through the woods and out on to one of many lanes to Buckland Monachorum at long ash car park, never seen it so empty!!
Then it was a quick break on one the many benches so thoughtfully provided by some kind person and then taking diagonal path through head high bracken we finally found ourselves on the truly awful track to Grenofen Bridge.
The decision then to take higher back path following the river was probably not the best. It was not as I remembered it 10years ago. There were traps, fallen trees, treacherous ledges, quite an adventure in fact.
But as always after a bit of a trek we found our non eco cars and gratefully fell in to them.
All were safely gathered in! 😜
Brenda