# 🥾 Walk 690 - Crowthorne Circular

The weather on Sunday 2nd February was unusually good for February, with clear blue skies and plenty of sunshine. This enticed twenty-two Ramblers and a very well behaved dog, to join our 7.5 mile "Crowthorne Circular" walk and it was lovely to welcome three people from other Ramblers groups and one who was trying out the BWWs.

Leaving Crowthorne station, we followed a footpath that runs parallel with the railway track and this took us directly to Edgbarrow Woods and Nature Reserve. From here, we crossed over to Wildmoor Heath Nature Reserve and followed the Three Castles Path past the back of Broadmoor Hospital.

![Edgbarrow Nature Reserve.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume51/images/edgbarrow-nature-reserve.jpg)

Arriving at Crowthorne Woods, we crossed the Devil’s Highway, a Roman road, connecting Londinium (London) to Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester) and the principal route to the west of Britain during the Roman period.

From here, we took a narrow path uphill, as a shortcut to another main track through the woods, leading to Round Hill where we paused briefly for a drinks stop. From here, the leader decided to make a small diversion to avoid a very waterlogged path, which resulted in a short section of road walking to get to the woodland at Brookers Corner. On leaving the woodland, we walked past the new Bucklers Park development, named after the Bucklers sports cars that used to be built in Crowthorne from the 1947 to 1965.

![Round Hill, near the Devil's Highway.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume51/images/round-hill.jpg)

Our lunch stop was at Heath Lake and a large fallen tree provided the perfect place for all of us to sit, while enjoying the lovely view of the lake with an abundance of bird life including several swans. After lunch, we took a quiet lane past Ravenswood Village, before crossing the East Berks golf course to Ravenswood Avenue which led us directly back to the station where the walk ended. (See our route on the OS Maps App.)

Everyone agreed that we had been extremely lucky with the weather and about half the group decided to make the most of the sunshine, enjoying tea, coffee, cakes and yummy chocolate chip cookies outside the U. bakery.

![Stopping for lunch by Heath Pond.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume51/images/lunch-stop-at-heath-lake.jpg)

![A beautiful blue sky over Heath Lake.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume51/images/heath-lake.jpg)

*Thanks go to Sue for leading this walk and for the write-up.*

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