Tuesday, 18 August 2026

Barrow Walk

Today Dawn and I did a circular walk from Barrow via Denham Castle.

It is an old favourite and is about 6 miles and my first proper country walk since the knee operation with uneven ground, field-edges and a couple of stiles.

This was our route.


Here are a few photos.

We parked at the centre of the village near the village sign and were soon on our way. We liked these sunflowers by the first pond. 


That pond was completely dry...


...but the next one wasn't.


Out into the country now. We liked this dappled horse.


The path went alongside Felton's orchard. Looking through the hedge we could see the trees were laden with apples and pears.


Everything is so dry looking.


There is a line of apple trees by the fence in the field through which our path took us. The last of them hung over the fence and we were able to pick a couple of apples to take home with us.


The next field had this flock of geese.


The signage for the 12th century Denham Castle (aka Desning Castle) is looking a little weathered now. 


We found many blackberry bushes today. The berries on the ones here were quite small but very flavoursome.


From this viewpoint you can see the castle mound and moat.


We passed this trig point which stands at 103m above sea level.


Passing through Desning Hall farmyard...


...we found some puddles. Evidence of some rain overnight!


There are lovely views up here.


We went down to the valley and passed this aircraft hangar.


The beet in this field look a bit thirsty.


We crossed a ditch via a newish bridge. Underneath the stream was waterless.


Returning to the outskirts of Barrow we had to cross a field with stiles at either end. Fortunately I could bend my knee enough to get over them.


As we were passing it, we decided to visit All Saints, Barrow church.


The sign in the porch said it was open from 10am to 3pm and it was 3:30pm when we arrived, but it was still unlocked.



We were impressed by the monument to Sir John Heigham.


After a back lane we entered some housing and found this in a garden by the path.



And here we are back where we started.


Well that was a good test of my knee on uneven and field-edge paths, and a pleasant walk. 
You can find more details of our route 6 mile  here on MapMyWalk or here on OS Maps or download a GPX file here.

Other related walks you can find on my blog include...

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