tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post8408554687114073825..comments2024-03-29T11:20:22.205+00:00Comments on SWC - This Week's Walks: Sunday Walk - Knebworth Hall, Ayot St. Lawrence and gently undulating woodlands and fields: Knebworth to Welwyn Garden CityAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11395064086819994526noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post-56241465631915148662019-10-14T18:56:12.944+01:002019-10-14T18:56:12.944+01:00Good to hear that the lunch time Brocket Arms pub ...Good to hear that the lunch time Brocket Arms pub has raised its game as far as its service is concerned. Our SWC walk check in the Spring was marred for the pub -lunchers by a comprehensive failure to deliver any meals leading to an epic rant from Marcus. Let's hope they maintain the standard you enjoyed.. PeteBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02135468832090264900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post-4447437688486621862019-10-13T21:30:39.625+01:002019-10-13T21:30:39.625+01:00Quite a delightful walk, despite the rain in the m...Quite a delightful walk, despite the rain in the morning. Easy walking, no stiles, rolling hills. Pub was efficient and friendly, serving usual pub fare done well. You arrive quite quickly into the commercial heart of Welwyn, no long slog through suburbs. Recommended.Karennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post-12773832569154550062019-10-13T19:11:02.826+01:002019-10-13T19:11:02.826+01:00n=5 in w=rain-to-lunch-then-dry weather.
Nice rout...n=5 in w=rain-to-lunch-then-dry weather.<br />Nice route, with few if any annoying bits. Some beautiful country piles and lesser houses, quiet lanes, pretty woods, well kept field verges (i.e broad grassy and unploughed), soothing rolling fieldscapes, very little overlap with SWC 69 (just Brocket Park really, which is a very fine golf course to walk through), a fair few impressive churches, some streams, the mighty River Lea and not very muddy at all, despite the recent rain. We saw some deer gambolling across an arable field, loooooots of different fungi in the morning half, with the ones at the Palladian St. Lawrence Church especially impressive, and then fewer in the arvo (but they were the deadly red ones). The leaves have started to turn in the woods (but also lots have already fallen), the ivy on the facade of Knebworth Hall was especially pretty. Autumn...<br />4 had lunch at The Brocket Arms, initially just squeezed into a very tight corner at a miniscule table, but a larger freed up just as our food arrived. The picnicker joined and we had about 80 minutes in the pub, a very fine place indeed. In Welwyn we arrived between the hourly fast trains, so had time for Simmons Cafe or the pub respectively, before taking the 16.52.Thomas Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01298846868417688062noreply@blogger.com