🥾 Walk 174 - Mortimer Common and Starvale Woods

Wednesday 22nd July turned out to be an unexpectedly clear and sunny evening with some dramatic clouds but minus the rain that had been forecast. Seven of us came for the walk and we set off from Mortimer Common, passed the Mortimer Fairground and soon picked up one of the Berkshire Circular Routes.

This took us through Starvale Woods towards Wokefield Common where we paused by a pond that was filled with Bulrushes before continuing through fern filled woodland and past Pullen's Pond. Emerging from the woods we then walked across golden wheat fields and passed an ancient oak tree in the middle.

We carried on through yet more wheat fields as far as the eye could see with the trees casting incredibly long shadows in the late evening sunlight. We then reached the swirling remains of a barley field - now reduced to neat rows of stubble - casting our own long shadows along the way.

Finally we passed through a last patch of woodland before heading back towards Mortimer Common where we had started. See our route on Bing Maps.

Some of us stopped for a quick post walk drink before heading our separate ways.

Thank you to Julia for this write-up and the photos.

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