Today, while Dawn continued with the painting of the kitchen, I joined Joyce and others for the 3 Churches Walk.
This was the invite from Joyce.
"BH Monday May 6th The 3 Churches walk Moulton, Dalham and Gazeley 6.5 miles . Start time is 10.30amat Moulton Village Hall, Bridge Street CB8 8SP. I will be at the Packhorse pub (a bit further down the road) at 10am for coffee if you want to join me? Pls note that there is very little phone signal at Moulton. Please bring snacks with you as we will pause en-route. Expect some very muddy portions but great bluebells. "
The first time I did this walk was in the Suffolk Walking Festival in May 2018, which was when I met Joyce, who was leading the walk. Read about it
here.
This was our route today.
Here are a few of my photos.
Mouton is a very pretty village. I parked at the community centre and walked the short distance to the
Packhorse Inn to meet those who had coffee there.
Time to get going.
We picked up a few others at the Car Park.
We crossed the River Kennet here....
...but didn't wade through the ford.
We passed more pretty cottages in Dalham village...
...and this old Malt kiln...
...before walking up hill to the hall.
This was our snack and drinks stop.
Onward now towards Gazeley through the woods. The bluebells were past their best. "people will want their money back", said Joyce.
We had some mud to walk around, but I managed to keep me shoes unmudded.
Soon we were in Gazeley. This is
All Saints Church. We didn't go in but continued through the churchyard.
Not much further and we were back in Moulton and our 3rd church -
St Peter's Moulton with its array of characterful
grotesques and carvings in the frieze around the
battlements..
Some fragrant honeysuckle...
...and hawthorn flowers...
... lined our path back to the
packhorse bridge, dating from the 14th or 15th century.
Thank-you Joyce for leading us round and to the others too for the company. It was good to catch up with a few I hadn't seen for a while.
You can find more details of our 6.8 mile route here on MapMyWalk (or download a GPX file here) and more of my photos here on Flickr.
Other related walks you can find on my blog include:
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