My Birthday Walk at Oxenholme

Todays Wednesday walk was my Birthday Walk so we needed something a bit special so I picked a walk from Oxenholme Station in the Lake District. This is about 9 miles long and takes you on a route between the M6 and the A6 although neither of these roads were visible much. The Edinburgh contingent were on the same train that we caught at Carlisle with the exception of Martin who arrived 30 minutes earlier in Oxenholme. It started to rain lightly as we left the station and the rain continued for most of the day although it was never heavy and on several occasions stopped for on average 30 minutes at a time. I have to say that as much as I enjoy walking in England the walks are never straightforward and you need good map reading skills and good instructions to follow. It is because of rights of way and many farmers who wont allow access over their land so you have to detour. This never happens in Scotland and walks here seem to be much easier to follow.

Kendal in the distance and on a good day this would have been a superb view.

At the furthest away point from the station we came upon this Quaker Burial Ground with only a couple of gravestones in it. 

Lunch and Martin and Tom have stopped speaking to each other. Martin's map reading was first class but even he managed to take us a wrong way twice. Tom for once kept quiet and as a result of his silence we had few problems with map reading.

We passed through several meadows full of Buttercups and this one had at least 6 white horses in it. 

A small lake surrounded by meadows and on a good day this would have been a much better photo.
We stopped at the Station Inn at Oxenholme Station for a pint and a blether at 3.00pm and caught the 16.06 train back to Carlisle where the Edinburgh contingent changed trains 15 minutes later for Edinburgh. A good walk despite the weather.