{"id":"6984793d533dbb4b73118780","title":"Walk 496 Pangbourne And Tidmarsh","path":"walks/scrapbook/by-year/2022/volume-39-jan-to-mar-2022/walk-496-pangbourne-and-tidmarsh","contentMarkdown":"# 🥾 Walk 496 - Pangbourne and Tidmarsh\n\nIt was perfect walking weather on Sunday 30th January. Cold but dry with next to no wind and blue skies. 35 people turned up for my walk at Pangbourne. So many that the car park became full and quite a few people had to find places elsewhere. We had a few newcomers trying out our group and a few visitors from other groups. There were a few people there that I hadn't seen since before the pandemic.\n\nWe started from the village hall car park and walked into Pangbourne, holding up the traffic at the zebra crossings. Soon we were out of the village and heading south onto a common by the River Pang. Then we headed east and into Sulham Wood, on a very steep, but mercifully short path.\n\nTaking a more level path, we walked round Mosshall Wood and back out into the open fields near Purley-on-Thames. Heading gently uphill, we made our way toward Little Heath before turning back to the southern end of Sulham Wood. We stopped for lunch in an open area of the wood where there were plenty of logs and fallen trees to sit on.\n\n![Crossing the common south of Pangbourne.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume39/images/pangbourne.jpg)\n\nAfter lunch, we left the woodland for a meadow, which brought us into Tidmarsh. I had planned a pub stop at The Greyhound Inn but with 35 people, that was now quite impracticable. Crossing the main road we headed uphill through farmland on a zig-zag route that brought us to Pangbourne College.\n\nFollowing the footpath signs through the college, we did a short stretch of road walking before getting back into open fields at Lower Bowden. It was downhill now, through the mixed woodland of Berry Copse. The mixture of trees gradually changed from mostly deciduous to mostly firs as we descended into the Pang valley.\n\nCrossing under the railway line at Sot's Hole, we emerged onto the main road from Lower Basildon to Pangbourne. We followed this road into Pangbourne village and back to the car park. See our on Google Maps.\n\n![Heading out of Mosshall Wood, near Purley-on-Thames.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume39/images/mosshall_wood.jpg)\n\nThere was 472m (1550 ft) of ascent in total on this 13.3km (8.25 mile) walk, so we got a reasonable amount of exercise as well as a nice dose of winter sunshine.\n\n![Making our way from Tidmarsh to Pangbourne College.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume39/images/tidmarsh.jpg)\n\n*I'd like to thank Alastair for back-marking my walk so efficiently.*\n\n## 📸 Back to Volume 39\n\nReturn to volume index","contentHtml":"<h1>🥾 Walk 496 - Pangbourne and Tidmarsh</h1>\n<p>It was perfect walking weather on Sunday 30th January. Cold but dry with next to no wind and blue skies. 35 people turned up for my walk at Pangbourne. So many that the car park became full and quite a few people had to find places elsewhere. We had a few newcomers trying out our group and a few visitors from other groups. There were a few people there that I hadn&#39;t seen since before the pandemic.</p>\n<p>We started from the village hall car park and walked into Pangbourne, holding up the traffic at the zebra crossings. Soon we were out of the village and heading south onto a common by the River Pang. Then we headed east and into Sulham Wood, on a very steep, but mercifully short path.</p>\n<p>Taking a more level path, we walked round Mosshall Wood and back out into the open fields near Purley-on-Thames. Heading gently uphill, we made our way toward Little Heath before turning back to the southern end of Sulham Wood. We stopped for lunch in an open area of the wood where there were plenty of logs and fallen trees to sit on.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume39/images/pangbourne.jpg\" alt=\"Crossing the common south of Pangbourne.\"></p>\n<p>After lunch, we left the woodland for a meadow, which brought us into Tidmarsh. I had planned a pub stop at The Greyhound Inn but with 35 people, that was now quite impracticable. Crossing the main road we headed uphill through farmland on a zig-zag route that brought us to Pangbourne College.</p>\n<p>Following the footpath signs through the college, we did a short stretch of road walking before getting back into open fields at Lower Bowden. It was downhill now, through the mixed woodland of Berry Copse. The mixture of trees gradually changed from mostly deciduous to mostly firs as we descended into the Pang valley.</p>\n<p>Crossing under the railway line at Sot&#39;s Hole, we emerged onto the main road from Lower Basildon to Pangbourne. We followed this road into Pangbourne village and back to the car park. See our on Google Maps.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume39/images/mosshall_wood.jpg\" alt=\"Heading out of Mosshall Wood, near Purley-on-Thames.\"></p>\n<p>There was 472m (1550 ft) of ascent in total on this 13.3km (8.25 mile) walk, so we got a reasonable amount of exercise as well as a nice dose of winter sunshine.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume39/images/tidmarsh.jpg\" alt=\"Making our way from Tidmarsh to Pangbourne College.\"></p>\n<p><em>I&#39;d like to thank Alastair for back-marking my walk so efficiently.</em></p>\n<h2>📸 Back to Volume 39</h2>\n<p>Return to volume index</p>\n"}