tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post2963953964573721829..comments2024-03-28T11:16:38.801+00:00Comments on SWC - This Week's Walks: Saturday walk - Knockholt Circular - first ever outing in bluebell timeAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11395064086819994526noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post-21781997156490064672019-05-01T14:50:12.544+01:002019-05-01T14:50:12.544+01:00Thank you for the ticket advice, will be useful fo...Thank you for the ticket advice, will be useful for future walks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post-48974635048944563562019-04-28T08:03:49.083+01:002019-04-28T08:03:49.083+01:00I belatedly realised that the best ticket for this...I belatedly realised that the best ticket for this walk would have been a six zone travelcard purchased with a Network Card - £8.60 or so: a big discount on the £12.80 daily cap for zone 1 to 6 on Oyster. Oh well...<br /><br />14 assembled on the platform for this walk and one late starter caught us at lunch, so N=15 in all. Odd spots of rain early on and a teensy bit of brightness in the early afternoon apart, the weather was w=cool-grey-cloud. A bit disappointing. Only one inert butterfly seen and birdsong was very muted: a big contrast to last weekend.<br /><br />The fenced bit across the now abandoned (yippee!) golf course was just a line of fence posts, which helpfully indicated the path. If there are indeed plans to build housing here, there is no sign of any progress being made. In truth more housing might cheer the rather nothing-y area around the station up. Any chance that the development could include a cafe open to 7pm, do you think?<br /><br />In Downe the George & Dragon had five frowning locals: the Queen’s Head was much more inviting and served nice food cheerfully. Its most famous regular (a former leader of UKIP) has not been seen for a while, apparently. <br /><br />Thus far we had had some nice-ish patches of bluebells and an encounter with three cheerful goats, plus two dogs who had a trick of throwing their toy over the fence for passers-by to throw back. But as the walk poster I worried that we might not get any big-hitting bluebell woods. But mid afternoon we came upon a stunner - just by Let’s Green. Two walkers did a short cut at this point.<br /><br />For the rest of us - well, OK, mainly for me - the big anxiety after this was whether we would get to tea in time, but we did, arriving at 4pm and managing to penetrate the vast and extravagantly well- stocked labyrinth that is Coolings Garden Centre to find its lovely self-service tea room. Nice cakes, big pots of tea. Then down to the station to get whatever train we got. Perhaps they could also add a pub to that housing development so the walking day does not have to end so abruptly. Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09314024151810191831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post-979441802879178882019-04-26T21:42:11.291+01:002019-04-26T21:42:11.291+01:00Hi Guys I did this walk back in January and yes th...Hi Guys I did this walk back in January and yes the golf course has been sold for housing development. The lovely chest nut trees are gone. Fences everywhere but there is a path but rather restricted path. It was extremely muddy in winter due to the extensive digging etc. Still a very good walk for Boundary 6 with fair bit of hills to challenge you. Should have some good bluebell patches as I recall about 5 years when I did it in blue bell season. Did the Holmwood to Gomshall with Leith rhododenrous extension. Flowers still got a week to go before full bloom. Sorry Marcus I skip your Tring walk. Enjoy the Knockholt walk as I did.<br />Monica. <br />P/S Walker saw 2 types of violet common dog violet and wood violet. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com