A Walk at Penton

Today's Thursday walk took the 3 of us to Penton for a 4.5-mile walk as shown below. It was a nice day and the Beach hedges were looking great all along the roads we walked along.

This is a nice walk and in the summer you can probably take paths across the fields, but today we stuck to the roads as the tracks across the fields looked very muddy.

The first mile of the walk we passed loads of Crab Apple trees, mostly with the apples on the ground, but on this one there are still a few lovely red Apples still on the tree.

Loads of Crab Apples on the ground

Plenty of Fungi as well

Lovely Beach hedges

Many of the hedges have just been allowed to grow into trees

The War memorial at Nicholforest Church

A very old Church

The entrance into a small estate

Many of the fields have just been left fallow and over the years they have become full of reeds

Pentonbridge Inn and a fine place for dining, but a little bit expensive

A commercial crop of Willow

Near the end of our walk we met this family of Pigs. It was a most enjoyable walk and we only once had a few drops of rain and as soon as Charlie and I put on our waterproof coats it stopped, much to the amusement of Mike. We finished our walk with a Coffee at The Buccleuch Centre where we were served without even giving our order as they are so used to our Thursday visit.

A Walk in Penton

It had originally only been Tom and myself that were going on this Penton walk but John's travel arrangements to Cambridgeshire were delayed due to snow in the Midlands so we enjoyed his company for another day. We parked at Pentonbridge Inn as we were going to have a bar lunch there at the end of our walk. The weather was excellent made even better by the thought of all the bad weather south of us in the Midlands.

We have only once before walked in this area. Today we stuck to the roads but for a later date we plan to use many of the lanes and paths between the roads.

Visibility was perfect today and Whita and the monument is the best feature but we could also see Criffel and Burnswark when we looked to the west. 

There were loads of streams and burns with this one called Andrew's Syke the nicest.

This Holly tree has the most berries I have seen in a long time.

I often wondered what Santa does after Christmas but it would appear he drives a digger.