{"id":"6984793e533dbb4b73118790","title":"Walk 491 Kintbury And Walbury Hill","path":"walks/scrapbook/by-year/2021/volume-38-oct-to-dec-2021/walk-491-kintbury-and-walbury-hill","contentMarkdown":"# 🥾 Walk 491 - Kintbury and Walbury Hill\n\nNot many people turned up for Ian's walk on Bank Holiday Tuesday 28th December. This is partly my fault. I published the walk on our website and I also mentioned it in the weekly bulletin. However, due to a technical error on my part, nobody received it. Sorry! Anyway, Ian has written up his walk:\n\n\"The walk leader, plus two visitors from other ramblers groups, started off in light drizzle along the canal before heading over a bridge and past the impressive vicarage and church before taking a footpath behind the Blue Ball pub and on to Wallingtons Road. As expected we encountered a little mud but the path was generally fine.\n\n![The gallows at Gombe Gibbet, Inkpen Hill.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume38/images/combe_gibbet_gallows.jpg)\n\nHeading south we traversed Inkpen Common before stopping for cake and coffee at the Crown and Garter. A stretch along a by-way led us to footpaths that took us up to Walbury Hill and blue sky! Once on the Wayfarers Walk we quickly moved to Combe Gibbet for the token photo and then down the hill towards Lower Green and the beautiful St Michael's Church - which happened to be open and forwarded us a view of the very impressive inside of the building. Lunch was had in the peaceful grounds of the church before heading through Lower Green and passing by St Cassian's and finally to Kintbury. Surprisingly the walk was 11 miles as advertised!\n\n![The interior of St Michael's Church, Inkpen.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume38/images/st_michaels_church_inkpen.jpg)\n\n*Thank you to Ian for leading this walk and writing it up.*\n\n## 📸 Back to Volume 38\n\nReturn to volume index","contentHtml":"

🥾 Walk 491 - Kintbury and Walbury Hill

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Not many people turned up for Ian's walk on Bank Holiday Tuesday 28th December. This is partly my fault. I published the walk on our website and I also mentioned it in the weekly bulletin. However, due to a technical error on my part, nobody received it. Sorry! Anyway, Ian has written up his walk:

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"The walk leader, plus two visitors from other ramblers groups, started off in light drizzle along the canal before heading over a bridge and past the impressive vicarage and church before taking a footpath behind the Blue Ball pub and on to Wallingtons Road. As expected we encountered a little mud but the path was generally fine.

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Heading south we traversed Inkpen Common before stopping for cake and coffee at the Crown and Garter. A stretch along a by-way led us to footpaths that took us up to Walbury Hill and blue sky! Once on the Wayfarers Walk we quickly moved to Combe Gibbet for the token photo and then down the hill towards Lower Green and the beautiful St Michael's Church - which happened to be open and forwarded us a view of the very impressive inside of the building. Lunch was had in the peaceful grounds of the church before heading through Lower Green and passing by St Cassian's and finally to Kintbury. Surprisingly the walk was 11 miles as advertised!

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Thank you to Ian for leading this walk and writing it up.

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📸 Back to Volume 38

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Return to volume index

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