# 🥾 Walk 537 - Kintbury, Lower Green and Inkpen

A near perfect day for walking greeted us on Saturday 17th September. Six hardy souls set off from Kintbury and the only concern was that the intrepid leader had forgotten his map in the rush to the station - he was watching an Aussie rules footy match on the TV! No problem as he had locked the route into his mind when doing a recce a few months ago.

After moving through the grounds of St Mary's Kintbury we headed down Wallington's Road before turning off into Winterly Copse. Whilst called a copse in reality the privately owned property is a wonder to walk through and is made up of a mixture of fully matured trees in excellent condition.

![St Mary's Church in Kintbury, decorated for a wedding.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume41/images/st_marys_church_kintbury.jpg)

We then did an abrupt turn and headed through Cotmore Copse. The path was dry but I would suffice to say very muddy in winter. We then entered the impressive grounds of St Cassian's before heading towards Hungerford before quickly turning south through one of the many horse studs in the area. It was here we ran into a group of students on a Duke of Edinburgh hike - one of quite a few we would encounter over the day.

Heading south through various sheep and horse paddocks we were able to glimpse the Wayfarers Walk and Combe Gibbet in the distance. As we neared Lower Green we stopped at the magnificent St Michael's in Inkpen and were lucky enough to find it open - a rare treat.

![Stopping for a group photo at Balsdon Farm, near St Cassian's.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume41/images/group_photo_kintbury_walk.jpg)

We decided to press on to the Crown and Garter pub for lunch and thoroughly enjoyed our tea and coffee and toilet stop at the Honesty Café that sits next to the pub. We then ventured along further paths that are new to Kintbury walks and encountered a couple of decent "undulations" before coming across a super large 1970's house with an impressive Rolls Royce parked outside. We then made our way back to Kintbury via further new footpaths.

As we moved through Kintbury we encountered a wedding at the Church. I was keen to see the bridal party, the minister had suggested it as well, but she was running a bit late, and the wedding organiser was not that keen on us being anywhere in the vicinity, so we moved on. I love a wedding. The walk took just shy of five hours including an extended lunch stop. Distance was just a tad over 10 miles and within the 10% margin of error allowed!

![Inside St Michael's Church, Inkpen/Lower Green.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume41/images/st_michaels_church_inkpen.jpg)

![The Wafarer's Walk passing through Northcroft Farm, near Lower Green.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume41/images/kintbury_walk_sheep_field.jpg)

*Thank you to Ian for leading this walk, writing it up and providing the photos.*

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