2.3 miles 1h 30m ascent 113m
A brief walk, in pouring rain, through this broad-leafed wood. The wood is famous for its bluebells, but we were a week or two early for the full show. Some of the trees must be ancient judging by their girth.
The one drawback is that the bluebells seem to squeezed all the other wildflowers out. That said their was wood sorrel, growing mainly from moss covered street stumps, shrinking violets easily overlooked, stitchworts, anemones and opposite leaved golden saxifrage.
I made the school-boy error of not looking at the information board and its map so we walked back along a minor road. The footpath through the forest has several junctions each marked with a numbered post. We passed all from one to six. Perhaps there is a seventh?
Stitchwort
On the way home we stopped at the Knocktinkle view point and admired the mist.
Poem at Knocktinkle
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