# 🥾 Walk 33 - Peppard Common and Kidmore End

The cold weather (a high of 2°C) didn't put people off coming to the walk on Sunday 24th February. We had twenty-one of us on this walk - and there was another walk at the same time with the Berkshire Walkers 20s & 30s group, so there were even more people out braving the cold.

The walk started at the common in Rotherfield Peppard. We passed by the tiny primary school and All Saints church as we headed south-easterly out of the village. We then headed south across country, past Blounts Court to Crowsley. Then we went west to Kidmore End, via Vines Farm (south of Sonning Common).

We walked through the grounds of the church with its impressive topiary arch of two yew trees and stopped off next to the village pond. There was a thin layer of ice on the pond and three ducks were breaking a channel though it to get to us when we got our sandwiches out. Their efforts were rewarded with plenty of bread crusts.

![Crossing Vines Farm and entering Kidmore End](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume3/images/vines_farm.jpg)

After lunch we headed north-west out of Kidmore End and into Gallowstree Common where we stopped for a drink at the Reformation pub. Refreshed, we walked through woodlands and open countryside back to Peppard Common where the walk ended. A few of us stopped off at the Red Lion for another drink (and to warm up) after the walk.

A good thing about the recent cold snap was that most of the mud was frozen so we stayed fairly clean throughout most of the walk, but towards the end of the walk we found some soft mud again! See our route on Google Maps.

![Ducks breaking the ice on the pond at Kidmore End](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume3/images/kidmore_end.jpg)

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