{"id":"69847964533dbb4b73118ac4","title":"Walk 124 Warfield And Tickleback Row","path":"walks/scrapbook/by-year/2014/volume-9-jul-to-sep-2014/walk-124-warfield-and-tickleback-row","contentMarkdown":"# 🥾 Walk 124 - Warfield and Tickleback Row\n\nI didn't make it to this walk on Saturday 20th September but Kathy, one of the two leaders of this walk, has provided us with this description and these photos.\n\nWarfield is an Anglo-Saxon settlement meaning \"Open land by weir\" and mentioned in the Doomsday book. The 11th century Saint Michael's parish church retains much of the later 13th & 14th century features. A number of notable people have lived within the area in the residences of the old Manor House, Warfield House and Warfield Hall.\n\nThere was also a late 18th century brickworks run by the Lawrence family that provided bricks for the Albert Hall, Westminster Cathedral and in restoration works of 10 Downing Street and Hampton Court.\n\n![St Michael's Church, Warfield.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume9/images/st_michaels_church_warfield.jpg)\n\nA group of 18 ramblers with two new members set off from Frost Folly Country Park car park. Following a country path down to St Michaels we stood to hear a little history on this picturesque village church before heading through a paddock that had some friendly Shetland ponies.\n\nFrom there we headed down fields, tracks and into the wooded areas of Hogoak Lane and past Chawridge Bank Nature Reserve. Crossing the busy Drift Road we then walked down quiet lanes and onto open fields to join bridleways and past stables, liveries and nearby farms.\n\nWe found a nice quiet spot at Braywoodside on the edge of a field and the sun came out as we enjoyed our picnic. The new trial flight-path from LHR did however disturb some of the quietness of the countryside!\n\n![Passing through a field of Shetland ponies near Warfield.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume9/images/ponies_warfield.jpg)\n\nFollowing lunch we meandered our way along hedged bridleways and tracks, a few people stopped to pick blackberries, some of which were still ripe.\n\nWe crossed back over Drift Rd and on into fields with views of The Cut a stream which runs to the Thames via Bray. From here a long straight walk through a leafy byway and the hamlet of Tickleback Row, where we emerged at the Shepherds House pub and where most of the group took some refreshments in the garden before heading back to the car park.\n\nAn easy-going, pleasant walk in the unspoilt countryside of nearby Bracknell, with the threat of possible rain/thunderstorm averted making it all the more enjoyable.\n\n![Stopping for our picnic lunch at the edge of a field in Braywoodside.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume9/images/braywoodside_picnic.jpg)\n\n![Walking through Tickleback Row on our return to Warfield.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume9/images/tickleback_row.jpg)\n\n## 📸 Back to Volume 9\n\nReturn to volume index","contentHtml":"<h1>🥾 Walk 124 - Warfield and Tickleback Row</h1>\n<p>I didn&#39;t make it to this walk on Saturday 20th September but Kathy, one of the two leaders of this walk, has provided us with this description and these photos.</p>\n<p>Warfield is an Anglo-Saxon settlement meaning &quot;Open land by weir&quot; and mentioned in the Doomsday book. The 11th century Saint Michael&#39;s parish church retains much of the later 13th &amp; 14th century features. A number of notable people have lived within the area in the residences of the old Manor House, Warfield House and Warfield Hall.</p>\n<p>There was also a late 18th century brickworks run by the Lawrence family that provided bricks for the Albert Hall, Westminster Cathedral and in restoration works of 10 Downing Street and Hampton Court.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume9/images/st_michaels_church_warfield.jpg\" alt=\"St Michael&#39;s Church, Warfield.\"></p>\n<p>A group of 18 ramblers with two new members set off from Frost Folly Country Park car park. Following a country path down to St Michaels we stood to hear a little history on this picturesque village church before heading through a paddock that had some friendly Shetland ponies.</p>\n<p>From there we headed down fields, tracks and into the wooded areas of Hogoak Lane and past Chawridge Bank Nature Reserve. Crossing the busy Drift Road we then walked down quiet lanes and onto open fields to join bridleways and past stables, liveries and nearby farms.</p>\n<p>We found a nice quiet spot at Braywoodside on the edge of a field and the sun came out as we enjoyed our picnic. The new trial flight-path from LHR did however disturb some of the quietness of the countryside!</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume9/images/ponies_warfield.jpg\" alt=\"Passing through a field of Shetland ponies near Warfield.\"></p>\n<p>Following lunch we meandered our way along hedged bridleways and tracks, a few people stopped to pick blackberries, some of which were still ripe.</p>\n<p>We crossed back over Drift Rd and on into fields with views of The Cut a stream which runs to the Thames via Bray. From here a long straight walk through a leafy byway and the hamlet of Tickleback Row, where we emerged at the Shepherds House pub and where most of the group took some refreshments in the garden before heading back to the car park.</p>\n<p>An easy-going, pleasant walk in the unspoilt countryside of nearby Bracknell, with the threat of possible rain/thunderstorm averted making it all the more enjoyable.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume9/images/braywoodside_picnic.jpg\" alt=\"Stopping for our picnic lunch at the edge of a field in Braywoodside.\"></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume9/images/tickleback_row.jpg\" alt=\"Walking through Tickleback Row on our return to Warfield.\"></p>\n<h2>📸 Back to Volume 9</h2>\n<p>Return to volume index</p>\n"}