Today, while Dawn was busy painting, I joined Joyce and 5 others on a walk from Kersey Mill.
This was the invite.
"Tuesday April 23rd. Starting at Kersey Mill, Stone Street IP7 6DP for coffee at 9.30am at The Miller’s Kitchen. We will start walking 10am ish. I have a 10 mile route that takes us to new villages Whatfield and Semer. I haven’t pre walked this so adventurous types are very welcome!"
This was our route today, going clockwise via Whatfield and Semer before returning via Kersey.
Here are a few of my photos.
I arrived early at Kersey Mill.
So I had the place to myself when I ordered my coffee.
But the other s arrived soon enough and we set off just a little after 10am in a bit of drizzle.
We were soon on a path I'd never walked before, passing this lovely house and garden the other side of Cosford Bridge over the Rover Brett.
The oil seed rape is very yellow. A bit too garish for my taste.
As we climbed from the river we got a lovely view back shrouded in murkiness from the low cloud and light rain.
It was hard to keep my camera dry even with my umbrella.
We arrived at Whatfield....
...and went to visit the church passing some lovely thatched cottages.
St Margaret's Church was open so we were able to go in and shelter from the rain for a while and enjoy the interior. As Simon Knott says "
The west end of the nave huddles under a fine 18th century west gallery, and the roof above is entirely rustic, the uneven ceiling rising above the roughly-hewn tie-beams.".
We were impressed by the phot of the church choir in 1913 and wondered how many survived the Great War.
Onwards towards Semer. Flower of the day was the cowslip, of which we saw a profusion.
We enjoyed seeing the lambs frolicking here.
Hill Farm has a rather nice farmhouse,
Unfortunately the church was locked, but we managed to squeeze into the porch for our lunch.
Then it was on through the delightful village.
It was quite a steep climb up Watson's Hill before we got an atmospheric view of Kersey Church through the murk.
On the way to Kersey we got a glimpse of this fallow deer.
Familiar territory now for the rest of the way as we passed through the delightful village of Kersey.
The Splash was flowing freely. No walking through it today.
We were pleased to see the rethatching of this house, dating from 1304, had been successfully completed. It was work in progress the last time we were here.
Climbing up to the church we came across an artist from Guernsey who was painting the classic view across the village.
Now the final stretch back to Kersey Mill. By now my camera had succumbed to the damp conditions and some condensation had got inside the lens giving a sort of dreamy effect to this view back to the church.
And here we are back at Kersey Mill.
Thank-you Joyce for leading us round and to the others for the company. Lots of lovely new paths with some great views; it's a shame about the persistent drizzle we had for a lot of the walk, but we remained undaunted.
You can find more details of our 10.0 mile route here on MapMyWalk (or download a GPX file here) and more of my photos here on Flickr.
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