{"id":"69847960533dbb4b73118a61","title":"Walk 165 Stratfield Mortimer Evening Walk","path":"walks/scrapbook/by-year/2015/volume-12-apr-to-jun-2015/walk-165-stratfield-mortimer-evening-walk","contentMarkdown":"# 🥾 Walk 165 - Stratfield Mortimer Evening Walk\n\nThe second of this year's evening walks was on Wednesday 17th June, with ten people able to make it. This 4 mile walk started by the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Stratfield Mortimer, soon after 7pm and initially followed The Street, heading east, past the turning for Station Road before taking a rather overgrown footpath. This took us north-west between fields, over a quiet lane and skirted Monkton Copse on the way to Wheat's Farm.\n\nAfter passing the stables, we turned south and followed a footpath through woodland that emerged onto The Street again, this time nearer Mortimer village. We followed the road west for a short while, before turning left into Kiln Lane, which we followed as it turned from a lane into a footpath and took us into Admiral's Copse.\n\n![Passing through Wheat's Farm on the way to Admiral's Copse](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume12/images/wheats_farm.jpg)\n\nWe emerged from Admiral's Copse into a wheat field, which we crossed to get to Drury Lane. Following this lane for a short distance to a T-junction, we turned right onto Pitfield Lane. This we followed until reaching Tanhouse Bridge, a road bridge over West End Brook, where we turned left onto a footpath that followed West End Brook through a field.\n\nNext we crossed a bridge of the railway line and another wheat field before reaching The Devil's Highway, the old Roman road from Silchester to London. We followed this diabolical road for a short distance before leaving it, this time heading north through yet another wheat field.\n\n![Emerging from Admiral's Copse into a field of wheat.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume12/images/admirals_copse.jpg)\n\nWe followed a footpath through several fields of (yes, you guessed it) wheat, before crossing under the railway line and joining a path that followed Foundry Brook to Foundry Pond, and back to the church where we had started. See our route on Bing Maps. It was still quite light by the time we finished the walk.\n\nAfter the walk, some of the group went home straight away as it was a week day, but a few stayed on for a post-walk drink. We went to The Elm Tree pub in nearby Beech Hill, which was on the route home for most of us. Here we sat outside with our drinks, enjoying the sunset, before going home.\n\n![Leaving The Devil's Highway to pass through another wheat field.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume12/images/devils_highway.jpg)\n\n## 📸 Back to Volume 12\n\nReturn to volume index","contentHtml":"

🥾 Walk 165 - Stratfield Mortimer Evening Walk

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The second of this year's evening walks was on Wednesday 17th June, with ten people able to make it. This 4 mile walk started by the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Stratfield Mortimer, soon after 7pm and initially followed The Street, heading east, past the turning for Station Road before taking a rather overgrown footpath. This took us north-west between fields, over a quiet lane and skirted Monkton Copse on the way to Wheat's Farm.

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After passing the stables, we turned south and followed a footpath through woodland that emerged onto The Street again, this time nearer Mortimer village. We followed the road west for a short while, before turning left into Kiln Lane, which we followed as it turned from a lane into a footpath and took us into Admiral's Copse.

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\"Passing

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We emerged from Admiral's Copse into a wheat field, which we crossed to get to Drury Lane. Following this lane for a short distance to a T-junction, we turned right onto Pitfield Lane. This we followed until reaching Tanhouse Bridge, a road bridge over West End Brook, where we turned left onto a footpath that followed West End Brook through a field.

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Next we crossed a bridge of the railway line and another wheat field before reaching The Devil's Highway, the old Roman road from Silchester to London. We followed this diabolical road for a short distance before leaving it, this time heading north through yet another wheat field.

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\"Emerging

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We followed a footpath through several fields of (yes, you guessed it) wheat, before crossing under the railway line and joining a path that followed Foundry Brook to Foundry Pond, and back to the church where we had started. See our route on Bing Maps. It was still quite light by the time we finished the walk.

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After the walk, some of the group went home straight away as it was a week day, but a few stayed on for a post-walk drink. We went to The Elm Tree pub in nearby Beech Hill, which was on the route home for most of us. Here we sat outside with our drinks, enjoying the sunset, before going home.

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