🥾 Walk 58 - Wokingham to Sindlesham

Sunday 7th July was a hot day. It was already 23°C at 10am when eighteen of us set off from the car park at Ye Olde Leathern Bottel and it was close to reaching its high of 28°C (that's 82°F in old money) by the time we finished the walk at lunch time.

The walk was led by Tim, a first time leader for the BWWs, and he had planned for this mostly woodland walk to have the lunch stop and pub stop at the end. How very fortuitous! This meant that we didn't get toasted during the walk and also meant that we finished in time to watch Andy Murray win the Wimbledon men's final! (The first Brit since Fred Perry in 1936!)

The walk started off by following some quiet back-roads behind the pub (Limmerhill) before heading west into the woods of Fox Hill and then Bear Wood.

Emerging from the woods and crossing a ford, we followed the road to Arborfield, turning north just before reaching the village. We continued more-or-less north toward Sindlesham, turning round at Carter's Hill Farm to head south-east back into Bear Wood, passing Bear Wood Lake golf course. Crossing our earlier trail we headed south into the woods at Barkham.

Our mostly tree-covered route back to the pub partly followed our outward route, with occasional detours to add variety. We made very good time, only 2½ hours, and arrived at the pub just as it was starting to fill up. Sitting outside the pub you could really feel the heat on this, hottest day of the year so far...

We were all very grateful for the amount of shade on this splendid seven mile route, and for the lack of nettles and brambles, as most of us were wearing shorts!

After drinks and a spot of lunch, we all left the pub and made our ways home. See the route of this walk on Google Maps.

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