We walked the next section of the loop today, albeit a much
shorter one than before in order to break up a too long section; in total it
was roughly four and a half miles.
We started back at Upminster Bridge, in sight of the
windmill that is in Upminster itself, and after a short walk through a nice
housing estate we came across it again while crossing a railway bridge. It is about two hundred years old and was
still being used up until the 1930’s.
From here we passed through three frosty fields, although
the sun was surprisingly warm. It was
good that the fields were frosty since they would otherwise have been quite
muddy. In one of them sat two old
leather sofas, on which sat some teenagers.
It’s a situation I only ever imagined happening in American films, but
maybe that’s where they got the idea from.
At the far edge of another field was a pony having either a
late breakfast or an early lunch. He
took very little notice of us since his food was obviously far more
interesting.
A nice stroll across the Ingrebourne again and through some
lovely damp smelling woods before we hit upon what we both hope will be the
nastiest part of the whole loop; roughly one mile of walking alongside a busy
road, only half of it with actual pavement, the rest with grassed verge. Not nice.
However, we were rewarded by getting to Pages Wood, a lovely
area with paths going all over the place, trees and this very cute ‘Duck’
bench. It would be lovely to have
somewhere like it very close by in which you could spend an hour just
strolling.
The woods fed into Harold Wood Park, which was very large
and would be a great place to play and spend time. I have to admit that the cricket ground and
pavilion looked lovely and I could imagine it being a great place to play. From here it was just another short walk to
Harold Wood station and the end of this walk.
Nice!
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