The Ridwares
Sunday 16th December
As a follow up to last year's walk, this time it was a test of map and landscape reading. Successfully navigating around the diversions in Pipe Ridware and picking out the route across the fields at Darklane Farm. All this in unseasonally warm December.
Sadly, we miss-timed the hours of The Station Cafeteria at Chasewater Heaths Railway Station. Second choise it had to be. We retreated to "The Saxon Penny". One of the Marston's "Pubs with food" brand.
Start - First Coffee 7¼Km. Second Coffee 15½Km Finish 21¼Km. Total ≈ 13¼Miles. (310m assent)
To the Black Country
Windmill, Upper Longdon
Ready for the countdown
It just had to be taken
Look no hands
There once was a stream
Morning coffee
The only shot that was worth it
Cutie's breakfast
St James's Church, Pipe Ridware
The way around Pipe Ridware Hall Farm
Rugeley B from High Bridge (Again)
Mind the towpath under the bridge
Ready for the working party
Strawberry towers
One day I'll get a good one
Running through the hoops
Could you squeeze through here?
Second coffee
Armitage & Rugeley B
It's across here
Found, bridge of the day
Getting clearer
Now the way is marked
The way out
No longer an obstacle for us