Dover's Hill walk
Nov. 22nd, 2016 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylTo Chipping Campden to meet up with the others for a walk and lunch. Despite worries about arriving late, we got there dead on time and parked up while we attempted to identify the cottage the others had rented for the week. While the parents were debating the issue, I looked out, noticed the faintly carved name on the house opposite and realised we'd stopped precisely where we needed to be.
After a short pre-walk prep, we set out along the main road through the village, along a couple of entries making up the footpath and emerged onto the foot of Dover's Hill. After 40 minutes, we reached the summit and paused to examine the view, at which point it began to rain and didn't let up for the rest of the afternoon.
Descending the other side of the hill, we walked a long loop round, following a little stream down and then up again and back towards the village. All in all, we walked 8.4km in a very leisurely two and a half hours.
We then adjourned to the Noel Arms for lunch where I had a goat's cheese salad — the 21st century equivalent of the previously ubiquitous vegetarian option, the ploughman's lunch — while a couple of the others had fish and chips, while the others had a mix of smaller items — the whitebait was popular, as was the pork belly.
After a pause for tea back at the cottage, we set out to return home. Completely thrown by Chipping Campden's one-way system, we did an accidental loop of Dover's Hill, returned to the village, still couldn't find the road to Shipston-on-Stour and instead took long detour south to Moreton-in-Marsh before heading back up the Fosse Way. We got home eventually, having added the best part of twenty minutes to our journey...
After a short pre-walk prep, we set out along the main road through the village, along a couple of entries making up the footpath and emerged onto the foot of Dover's Hill. After 40 minutes, we reached the summit and paused to examine the view, at which point it began to rain and didn't let up for the rest of the afternoon.
Descending the other side of the hill, we walked a long loop round, following a little stream down and then up again and back towards the village. All in all, we walked 8.4km in a very leisurely two and a half hours.
We then adjourned to the Noel Arms for lunch where I had a goat's cheese salad — the 21st century equivalent of the previously ubiquitous vegetarian option, the ploughman's lunch — while a couple of the others had fish and chips, while the others had a mix of smaller items — the whitebait was popular, as was the pork belly.
After a pause for tea back at the cottage, we set out to return home. Completely thrown by Chipping Campden's one-way system, we did an accidental loop of Dover's Hill, returned to the village, still couldn't find the road to Shipston-on-Stour and instead took long detour south to Moreton-in-Marsh before heading back up the Fosse Way. We got home eventually, having added the best part of twenty minutes to our journey...
