Our twelfth walk was on Saturday 29th September and had thirteen people attending. The weather was good - warm in the sun but with a slight autumnal nip in the air.
This was an easy 6 mile walk billed as a good walk for newcomers, and we did have several newcomers.
The walk started from the car park of the Flowing Spring pub and followed Spring Lane to Sonning Eye where we crossed Sonning Bridge to join the Thames path.
We followed the tow path along the Thames towards Shiplake, passing Hallsmead Ait (an ait is a small island) to the Shiplake College boat club. After that, we left the tow path and took the steep path up to Shiplake.
We walked through the village before going cross-country through Shiplakecourt Farm, Shiplake Rise Farm and Shiplake Copse. We stopped for our picnic lunch at the edge of a recently harvested wheat field just after Shiplake Copse.
After lunch we passed through a small hamlet at Binfield Heath before following a footpath through Bint's Farm back to the Flowing Spring, where we stopped for a drink and continued to enjoy the Autumn sun in their beer garden. See our route on Google Maps.
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