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Sunday 15th July – 10.45am for a prompt 11.00am
start. Under 5 miles 17 people came, weather excellent. Wet the day before, wet the day after.
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8 people came on the
walk
The weather remained dry, sunny and warm and despite the
rain of previous weeks there wasn’t too much mud underfoot.
A few sections of the route were fairly overgrown but either
passable or alternatives were available. A red kite made an
appearance during the picnic stop. We made it to St. Albans
Abbey station in nice time for the train back to Watford.
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Top of Page to BADFA Home page Sunday 20th May 2010 - 11.00am. 1 ½ or 6 miles A Woodland Interlude in Bedmond plus Pimlico. Two walks in one Meeting point: Outside the Post office in Bedmond High Street. The post code for Sat. Navs. is WD5 0QP Grid Ref TL09830366 Bring a picnic. Leader: David Bearfield. This walk forms a figure-of-eight starting at Bedmond Post Office. The first segment (which forms a short walk of 1½ miles) explores woods and lanes that the father of Nicholas Breakspeare, later to become Pope Adrian IV would have walked down to go to work at St Albans Abbey in the 12th century and where Dick Turpin would have ridden Black Bess on his way to rob stagecoaches. The second section (just over 4miles) takes in the hamlet of Pimlico and open farm land and has some connection with television. 
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Sunday 22nd April – 10.00am.
10 miles Points of Interest: The White Mark (an 82-metre high narrow triangle cut into the chalk) on Watlington Hill, visible from Hill Road, Wallington. The M40 cutting through the scarp edge of the Chilterns, as seen in “The Vicar of Dibley”. The Aston Rowant Nature Reserve at Beacon Hill, our picnic site. Between Beacon Hill and Kingston Hill, the path follows the line of a dismantled railway, part of the former Watlington and Princes Risborough Railway. The disused chalk pits and quarry at Chinnor. The ones to the left of the path are largely dry, the ones to the right contain water and appear turquoise in colour.The site of the former Chinnor cement works is being transformed into a housing estate. Whiteleaf Cross (a 26-metre high by 15-metre wide cross surmounted on a triangle cut into the chalk) on the scarp edge above Whiteleaf, visible from Lodge Hill.
Many Red Kites (Milvus milvus), seen by all. A Buzzard (Buteo buteo), a Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), seen by some. An Orange-tip (Anthocharis cardamines), a Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae). Carpets of Dog’s Mercury (Mercurialis perennis). Patches of Cowslips (Primula veris), Primroses (Primula vulgaris), White Dead-nettle (Lamium album), Yellow-rattle (Rhinanthus minor).
Sunday 25th March – 11.00am BST. 6 miles. We start at Shenley Park, then go down to Shenleybury, around Porters Park Golf Course and along by Wood Hall. We go through a total of five woods and should see some pheasants. No stiles, just 2 steps at a footbridge.
Sunday 11th March – 11.00am. We walked from Aldenham Church to see the
daffodils at Wall Hall. It was such a lovely day that when Jennifer
Nixon suggested a longer walk up to Munden everyone agreed. During
the walk some keen wildflower watchers spotted :
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Sunday 19th February 2012 - 11.00am. 6 miles
We had 22 on the walk and
Yvonne managed to account for all of them at the end. A
few planned to do only part of the walk, commendably they all remembered to tell us.
A picnic was taken in the Rose Garden. There were a few surprises for people on the route as well.
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Sunday 22nd January 2012 – 9.10am (see below).
10 miles.
Sunday 1st January 2012 – 12 noon. 4 miles. No picnic. Thirty seven people came. 48 Mince Pies and 5 litres of Mulled Wine were duly served at the southernmost point on the walk. The weather was mostly good, a little rain from the top of Bentley Priory Open Space.
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