More from our walk.

[cmcmck]

 This is where the farm track takes you. This is Lower Huntington farmhouse. I could fancy this one!


There is also a rather fine old hay barn:



This little one is known as a gatekeeper:



This is goose grass, also known as cleavers. It is mighty sticky!



The Wrekin across a field of wheat:



Behind the sheeps you have two hills- Benthall Edge in the foreground and Wenlock Edge in the background:



This is about as green as we get. The Mercians of the old Kingdom here in Shropshire would have called this time of year Midsumor.



This is great willowherb, a cousin of the better known rosebay willowherb:



This wee hamlet has the wonderfully silly name of Little Worth:



And it has a pool- everything from a puddle to a lake is a pool in the local dialect:



That's Wenlock Edge on the left in this view down into the valley of the River Severn:



Four young bucks in a field of oats. Yearlings I think and a bachelor group. If you look closely you'll see that the middle two have damaged antlers so there's been fighting. The outer two have very impressive spreads for younglings. These are fallow as roe don't get quite such a spread.



Full Summer growth on the lane from Little Wenlock and why, yes, we did pop into the village pub for refreshment! :o)



A view across the the Ercall from Wenlock's Wood:



The path goes thataway into the Wrekin Forest but we weren't heading that way today.



We went thisaway up the farm track from Wrekin Farm:



And into Ercall Woods:



And finally a favourite view of mine across the Weald Moors to the Shropshire Plain all in Summer haze:



And that was our walk. About ten miles in all.






 

Comments

[vriddy]

What a lovely walk!! The farm pictures look lovely, and so do the woods :D

[cmcmck]

I do covet that farmhouse! :o)

[kotturinn]

I covet the brickwork on the barn.

You have So Much Green (it's all getting very shrivelled around here).

[cmcmck]

The area was big on brickmaking at one time so there are some really fine brick built buildings.

We have at least some green all year round.

[sparowe]

So beautiful, what a lovely walk. :)

[cmcmck]

We know we re lucky to be surrounded by such countryside- it saved our sanity during covid!

[jazzyjj]

Sounds like a very nice walk indeed. Nature is always so nice.

[cmcmck]

It's a route we hadn't taken for a while so it was nice to be back.

[semielliptical]

So lovely!!

[cmcmck]

It's a pretty spot for sure.

[davidgillon]

Gorgeous pics, and yum on the farmhouse!

[cmcmck]

It's 18th century I believe and rather splendid.

[vegetablearian]

These pics are so beautiful. I haven't seen the Wrekin in way too long. Thank you for sharing!

[cmcmck]

We live in Wellington, right underneath it.

[vegetablearian]

Oh, that must be so nice! I grew up in a part of Staffordshire where you could see it on a clear day, but now I live in Birmingham, and I really miss it. And the lovely countryside, which is so similar to your pics :)

[cmcmck]

My maternal grandad came from Stafford- I grew up in Kent because that was where he fetched up working the pits.

Brum's not so far to come visiting from though.

[yourlibrarian]

Heh, that's a lot of antlers in one spot. And how pretty that road is in the tunnel of greenery.

[cmcmck]

You don't often see so many bucks in one spot.

That's the road from Little Wenlock to Wellington where we live.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> This wee hamlet has the wonderfully silly name of Little Worth: <<

It makes me wonder if there was a Great Worth.

>> Full Summer growth on the lane from Little Wenlock and why, yes, we did pop into the village pub for refreshment! :o)

That looks like someone paved an old holloway.

Re: Thoughts

[cmcmck]

I wondered that and as far as I can tell, no. There is, however, a Little Wenlock and a Much Wenlock.

The high banked hedgerows locally always make for deep lanes.

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> I wondered that and as far as I can tell, no. There is, however, a Little Wenlock and a Much Wenlock.<<

LOL

I'm still charmed that you live near Wenlock and Wrekin.

>> The high banked hedgerows locally always make for deep lanes.<<

So raised edges rather than sunken center, but creating a similar effect. I can see how banked hedgerows would make a good "fence" especially if the area tends to get soggy.

Re: Thoughts

[cmcmck]

They are names that had me fall in love with the place when I first knew it many years before we moved here.

Raised banks with hedges on top. This is a stock rearing region so they do a useful job.

[turlough]

What a lovely, lovely walk you had! So many gorgeous photos of gorgeous views!

[cmcmck]

It's a walk we hadn't done in a while as the farm track can get VERY soggy and muddy in Winter!

[adafrog]

Wow. Thanks.

[cmcmck]

Y're welcome. :o)