A Bluebell Walk

We have a walker called Sue Gearing who writes a lot of the walks around here. She has published several books but her walks are also frequently in local magazines and papers. Yesterday the Student Daughter and I tried one of these out as a possible walk for my walking group.

We started out after Sunday lunch on a blistering hot day. Fortunately some of the walk was under the shade of trees as we climbed up gradually out of the village of Blagdon through bluebell woods. Blagdon is a village on the very edge of the Chew Valley on the slopes below the Mendips.

There were places where there were beautiful views back down the hill.

There were plenty of good places to stop for a photo.

We eventually emerged onto high open land known as Burrington Ham. This area is  quite exposed and was very hot. We only had one sun hat between us so it was only fair to share it!

We passed through grazing cattle and through cleared areas which have bluebells just emerging. Soon we arrived at Ham Rocks. I let Poppy and Student Daughter climb up to see the view while I checked out the route instructions.

 We then started back down the hill through Silver Birch trees.

Time for a rest and a selfie. 

We then descended into the small village of Rickford where our walk took us along past a stream and ford. Poppy made the most of this for a quick dip and cool off.

She had to stay on the lead for the whole walk because she is currently in season and we don't want any sneaky puppies! 

It was then back across the fields to Blagdon.

Hopefully I shall be rewalking this route with my walking group.