Castle Combe - 2.8.15

Posted by Bath Ramblings on Sunday, August 2, 2015
Last Modified on Thursday, August 6, 2015

Castle Combe

At last a proper summer day with no raincoats, windcheaters etc! The walk started from the car park on the edge of Castle Combe and after successfully getting through the golf course without being hit the first point of interest was Lugbury Long Barrow. All that really remains are the entrance (or exit) stones. Then proceeded south with views of Nettleton and the rolling Gloucester/ Wiltshire hills in the distance and fields of wild flowers closer to hand. The most excitement was when a herd of frisky cows couldn’t decide what they wanted to do - fortunately they decided against a full charge and headed for the woods. The return route was through the picturesque village of Castle Combe - which still has functioning public toilets!

Castle Combe village Castle Combe - ‘Prettiest Village in England’ apparently.

The theme of today’s walk was SUNSHINE

Golden corn Golden sunshine and golden corn.

Cows by the trees The animal highlight of today’s walk was some scaredy cat cows - they made a show of thinking about stampeding us and then decided it wasn’t worth it and ran away to hide in the trees.

Wild flowers Wild flowers were in abundance everywhere.

Lugbury Long Barrow stone And it wouldn’t be a Wiltshire walk without a big stone.

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