Eight of us attended our third walk on 29th July. The weather was good except for one shower that started just before we got to our pub stop.
The walk first headed north-east out of Stoke Row and cross country to Highmoor, Holly Grove, Satwell, and Kingswood Common, where we stopped for our picnic lunch.
On the way we passed a number of country pubs that had closed down. This is becoming an all too common site these days.
After lunch we continued through a mixture of woodland and open countryside on our way to Checkendon, where we stopped off at a pub. It began to rain minutes before we got to the pub but luckily it had stopped by the time we left the pub to continue the walk back to Stoke Row.
On the way, we made a slight detour to look at the Maharajah's Well - commissioned by the Maharajah of Benares in 1863.
I tried to record the route of this walk with my GPS receiver, but something went wrong. I only recorded half of the walk! Finger trouble, no doubt.
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