🥾 Walk 239 - Dinton Pastures and Hurst

We had twenty people on our walk on the August Bank Holiday Monday. Many of these were members we haven't seen for a while, there were some visitors from other groups and a few newcomers. The sun was shining, despite being a Bank Holiday, as we started our walk from the car park by the Museum of Berkshire Aviation on the north-west border of Dinton Pastures country park.

We followed the River Loddon past Whistley Park, heading north-east until we reached Whistley Bridge. Here we departed from the river and headed eastward to Broadwater, just south of Twyford, before following Hogmoor Lane to the village of Hurst. Crossing a field, we arrived at The Green Man pub. As it was just twelve o'clock, the pub had just opened but was still empty, so we stopped off for a quick drink before all the Sunday Lunch customers arrived.

Sitting in the garden of this 17th century pub we enjoyed our drinks in the sunshine before crossing over the road to the pond, where we sat and had our packed lunches. After lunch we walked along quiet roads through Hurst and down to Lea Farm before crossing into Dinton Pastured country park. We walked along the edge of Hurst Golf Course before joining a footpath that followed around the edge of Black Swan Lake. By now there were plenty of families in the country park enjoying the fine weather.

The path took us half-way around the lake before passing between Black Swan Lake and Sandford Lake. Now following the edge of Sandford Lake, we made our way back to the museum car park from where we'd started. See our route on Bing Maps.

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