{"id":"69847928533dbb4b73118602","title":"Walk 650 Kinbury To Newbury Linear Walk","path":"walks/scrapbook/by-year/2024/volume-49-jul-to-sep-2024/walk-650-kinbury-to-newbury-linear-walk","contentMarkdown":"# 🥾 Walk 650 - Kinbury to Newbury Linear Walk\n\nSaturday 27th July was bright and sunny, with a pleasant breeze as we set off from Kintbury Station on our linear walk. Our route took us Northwards along Station Road out of Kintbury then along footpaths towards the A4.  A deer was running ahead of us as we turned alongside the chicken farm.\n\nWe paused for elevenses after crossing cornfields with poppies, to enjoy the clear view back towards Inkpen and Combe Gibbet where some of us had walked a few weeks ago.  We then walked through the woods in the BBOWT managed Sole Common pond Nature Reserve before stopping for an early lunch, taking care not to dislodge a rather precariously balanced dead tree.\n\n![Walking through Sole Common nature reserve.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume49/images/sole-common.jpg)\n\nThere was local honey for sale in Boxford, where we joined the Lambourn Valley Way, getting occasional glimpses of the clear, shallow chalk-stream.  At Bagnor, by kind permission of the landowner, we walked along the Riverside and saw several trout.  We also learned that male mallard ducks change their plumage in summer and look very similar the females.\n\nFollowing the Kennet and Avon Canal into Newbury centre, there was drama unfolding as we saw an unfortunate pigeon flying into a branch and falling into the Canal.  An expert rescue operation involving a local fishermen's keep-net and Paul, a new walker with the group, who had clearly done this sort of thing before, carrying the pigeon to a safe, quiet spot to dry out.  There was well earned tea, cake and milkshake in the Canal-side cafe afterwards before we headed for Newbury Station. See our route on Google Maps.\n\n![Stopping for lunch in Sole Plantation.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume49/images/sole-plantation-lunch.jpg)\n\nThank you to everyone who came along and made it such an enjoyable day out!\n\n![Approaching Newbury, following the Kennet and Avon Canal.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume49/images/kennet-and-avon-newbury.jpg)\n\n*Thanks go to Ruth for leading this walk, providing the snacks and for writing it up.*\n\n## 📸 Back to Volume 49\n\nReturn to volume index","contentHtml":"<h1>🥾 Walk 650 - Kinbury to Newbury Linear Walk</h1>\n<p>Saturday 27th July was bright and sunny, with a pleasant breeze as we set off from Kintbury Station on our linear walk. Our route took us Northwards along Station Road out of Kintbury then along footpaths towards the A4.  A deer was running ahead of us as we turned alongside the chicken farm.</p>\n<p>We paused for elevenses after crossing cornfields with poppies, to enjoy the clear view back towards Inkpen and Combe Gibbet where some of us had walked a few weeks ago.  We then walked through the woods in the BBOWT managed Sole Common pond Nature Reserve before stopping for an early lunch, taking care not to dislodge a rather precariously balanced dead tree.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume49/images/sole-common.jpg\" alt=\"Walking through Sole Common nature reserve.\"></p>\n<p>There was local honey for sale in Boxford, where we joined the Lambourn Valley Way, getting occasional glimpses of the clear, shallow chalk-stream.  At Bagnor, by kind permission of the landowner, we walked along the Riverside and saw several trout.  We also learned that male mallard ducks change their plumage in summer and look very similar the females.</p>\n<p>Following the Kennet and Avon Canal into Newbury centre, there was drama unfolding as we saw an unfortunate pigeon flying into a branch and falling into the Canal.  An expert rescue operation involving a local fishermen&#39;s keep-net and Paul, a new walker with the group, who had clearly done this sort of thing before, carrying the pigeon to a safe, quiet spot to dry out.  There was well earned tea, cake and milkshake in the Canal-side cafe afterwards before we headed for Newbury Station. See our route on Google Maps.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume49/images/sole-plantation-lunch.jpg\" alt=\"Stopping for lunch in Sole Plantation.\"></p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who came along and made it such an enjoyable day out!</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume49/images/kennet-and-avon-newbury.jpg\" alt=\"Approaching Newbury, following the Kennet and Avon Canal.\"></p>\n<p><em>Thanks go to Ruth for leading this walk, providing the snacks and for writing it up.</em></p>\n<h2>📸 Back to Volume 49</h2>\n<p>Return to volume index</p>\n"}