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After another quiet few days. Karen pressed on with making bunting for Kirsty and Matt's wedding, and I helped with the cutting out. We also completed a couple of longer walks - passing through Corscombe one day, followed the next day (on 1st Feb) with the second section of the Liberty Trail.
We drove to Misterton three miles from us and parked up in the village. The walk took us over some very muddy fields towards Hazelbury Plucknett, a small village in apple orchard country. The trail at one point early on was completely water logged and a deep puddle soaked K's feet over her walking boots. We watched a tall tree being felled as we approached the village from the south in what used to be an orchard (according to the OS map.) We continued over farmland and a large cattle shed at Ruby Wood farm to finish our walk on the hill top adjacent to West Chinnock.
We returned via West Cross Hill where a very unhelpful farmer had set up the electric fences around the livestock field to hinder walkers as much as possible. It must be intentional - we had to straddle the electric fence to get to a kissing gate on the footpath and K received a couple of jolts from the fencein the process- quite painful! This was followed by very muddy crossing to the next field where the long grass cleaned our very muddy boots. We avoided the big puddle at Misterton by taking a parallel path back to the village.Weiterlesen