Category: Reports of our Guided Walks
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St David’s Day Walk.
As CSMA (now named Boundless: https://www.boundless.co.uk/ ) enters it’s 100th year, on a chilly but mostly dry morning, fourteen of the guests taking part in a Boundless Rally at Whitemead Park, Parkend joined our guide on a Forest walk . Frank Edwards, the founder of CSMA would surely be delighted that people are still enjoying…
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Boxing Day Walkers
Despite the unreliable weather, Boxing Day walkers from Speech House Hotel enjoyed a morning stroll before returning for their fabulous Christmas weekend. The walked started from Speech House Hotel, spent a short time in the Cyril Hart Arboretum before exiting back to the woods. They then zig-zagged around the access road called Spruce Ride, taking…
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Spring is here.
Above Cuckooflowers near the river Lyd. The arrival of Spring and the easing of COVID-19 restrictions has led to the first guided walk of 2021. Two visitors to the Forest were shown around the woodlands on a beautiful, sunny Spring day. The walk was partly to aid research into the area in preparation for book…
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Brighton U3A walk in the Forest of Dean
Dean Valley Manor 18 members of Brighton U3A visited the Wye Valley and Forest of Dean on a walking holiday. They chose to stay at Dean Valley Manor (formerly Lindors). Our guide was asked to find a flat walk in the Forest so a walk around the Speech House woods was devised for them. Woorgreens…
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Whitemead Guests on a 9 mile circular walk.
More than 20 guests from Whitemead tackled a 9 mile circular walk from Parkend on a beautiful Spring day. An unusual sight was encountered at the Parkend Beech (tree) where a small Ash sapling is growing from a bole in the Beech tree. With a perfect temperature for walking, the walkers tackled the ascent from…