# 🥾 Walk 23 - Marlow and Medmenham

There were fifteen people on our twenty-third walk, which followed a day of heavy rain. Needless to say, it was quite a muddy walk but the rain held off for most of the walk.

After a brief walk through Marlow town centre we headed west toward Bockmer End, via Davenport Wood and Marlow Common. This part of the walk was on high ground and wasn't too muddy. (The second half of the walk was rather different!)

![Marlow Common between Marlow and Medmenham](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume2/images/marlow_common.jpg)

We then headed south to Medmenham, stopping for our picnic lunch just outside the village. We also stopped for a refreshing drink in a very pleasant pub called the Dog and Badger in Medmenham before continuing the walk, going south towards the Thames.

The walk was originally planned to follow the Thames path back to Marlow but in view of the recent weather, the leader took the wise decision to take an alternative route back via footpaths on slightly higher ground. Even so, we encountered flooded fields and very muddy footpaths. The weather was now on the turn, with heavy cloud building up and then rain, which got quite heavy just before the end of the walk. See our route on Google Maps.

![Flooding was evident on footpaths and fields. We got our boots wet here](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume2/images/one_foot_in_the_gravy.jpg)

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