# 🥾 Walk 26 - Burnham Beeches and Hedgerley

We had 31 people on this walk - and it wasn't even a joint walk with another group! Walking certainly becomes popular this time of year. Probably a mixture of guilt after the Christmas excesses and New Year's resolutions to get fit.

The walk started by the cafe on Lord Mayors Drive and headed off along the tarmac paths north of the cafe. But the tarmac didn't last too long before the paths became soggy mud! The route took us out of Burnham Beeches toward the village of Hedgerley.

We stopped for our picnic lunch in a field by Hedgerley village before visiting the splendid pub there. The return journey took us through Egypt Woods (north of Burnham Beeches) and Littleworth Common (to the west) back to the cafe.

![The start of our walk through Burnham Beeches](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume3/images/burnham_beeches.jpg)

There was a section of path between Egypt Woods and Littleworth Common where the mud was particularly deep and slushy. Nobody had clean boots after this walk!

Some of us stopped for a cuppa at the cafe at the end of the walk. See our route on Google Maps.

![Our picnic stop in a field near Hedgerley village](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume3/images/hedgerley.jpg)

## 📸 Back to Volume 3

Return to volume index