# 🥾 Walk 142 - Virginia Water and Coworth Park

We had twenty-three people on our walk on Sunday 25th January. A few of these were guests from other walking groups and a few were newcomers trying us out. This was a linear walk starting at Ascot railway station and finishing at Sunningdale railway station.

We set off from Ascot railway station, first going through an underpass underneath the station and then through a few residential roads before taking a footpath through the woods. The path crossed the busy A330 and continued through more woodland before emerging into a residential road in Sunninghill.

Soon we took another footpath which brought us to the Church of St Michael and All Angels, where there is an ancient Yew tree with a decrepit trunk held together by some sturdy ironwork.

![Woodland between Ascot Railway Station and South Ascot.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume11/images/south_ascot.jpg)

After stopping to look at the church we continued on footpaths, heading north-east, toward Virginia Water. We then followed Mill Lane along the outskirts of Virginia Water to Blacknest Gate on the edge of Windsor Great Park.

The plan was to go through part of the park and come out at the car park on London Road, but during the pre-walk the leaders discovered that the car park was being rebuilt and there wasn't good enough access for our walk to go through. So instead we followed the road outside Windsor Great Park until we reached the entrance to Coworth Park.

After walking past the rather grand looking Coworth Park Hotel, along a road with an unusually precise speed limit of 9½ MPH, we found some picnic tables by one of the ponds, so we stopped there to eat our packed lunches.

![The Church of Saint Michael and All Angels.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume11/images/st_michael_all_angels.jpg)

The picnic over, we continued through Coworth Park and into Wentworth Golf Course. Keeping an eye out for high-speed golf balls, we walked along footpaths through the golf course until we emerged into residential roads in Sunningdale.

With time to spare before our train back, we stopped off at a local pub. However, there was a big function going on at the pub so it took a while to get served and we ended up having to dash for the train. See our route on Bing Maps.

![A group photo of us in Wentworth Golf Course.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume11/images/wentworths.jpg)

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