Thursday 9th April Woburn walks

There were 2 walks on this date. The shorter one of 3 miles led by Hilary & the longer one of 7 miles led by Tony R.
As we had had several walks from Woburn towards Eversholt it was decided to do the longer walk in the opposite direction. 8 of us therefore left the Woburn car park by turning left & left again. We crossed the road & took the footpath by the side of the fire station. This led through woods, coming out onto farm tracks. After a coupe of "dog-legs" we arrived at a minor road junction. We followed the "No Through Road" signs to arrive at Potsgrove church. On finding the church open we entered & had our coffee/banana break inside.
As Diane used to live very near she gave us local gossip & even preached from the pulpit.

Diane preaching

After leaving the church we turned sharp left, following a footpath downhill to a bridge over a stream, then uphill to join Battlesden Avenue. Here Diane pointed out her house in the distance. We followed the Avenue to the large gate at the estate entrance where we stopped for a group photo.

Tony R, Dave, John, Janet, Diane, Torunn, Jean & Geoff in front of the gates

After passing through the gates we crossed the main road & followed it for a few hundred yards to leave it by a patch of bare earth which had been used as a lay=by. We did see the footpath sign but it was almost hidden by brambles. We followed the track parallel to the Woburn Park estate wall until we came to a gate through which we passed to exit very near to Paris House. From there we followed the yellow markers posted through the Deer Park to join Park Road by the cattle grid. It was then only a short walk back to the car park where we saw some cars belonging the those members who had done the shorter walk. We reckoned they were still enjoying the pleasures of the coffee shops in Woburn. As it had been a day with wonderful April sunshine we considered we had had a great walk in countryside unfamiliar to some members.

Track of walk, walked in anti-clockwise direction.