Lacock and Bowood 29th August 2011

 Three reasons why we won't do this walk again:

• Very boring and busy road walking on return half of walk... several miles
• Trying to navigate across fields where the footpath had been ploughed up
• The whole Bowood portion of the walk was really dull and again, long

Good or interesting things about the walk:

• Free food harvest.  Huge mushrooms, juicy damsons (or plums?), and enough good blackberries to fit with some apple into a crumble
• Happened to choose Lacock not knowing that August Bank Holiday was their annual fair.  Luckily huge amounts of overflow car parking available.
• Best thing was going wrong, getting a bit lost, then navigating from OS map and compass to rejoin the walk later.  Triumph!

Around Bowood Golf Course

Waiting.... must be Jon Roberts ahead

Lunch stop and a mushroom harvest

The rebuilt smaller Bowood House

'It's obvious they've never seen Watership Down'

Funny side passages

Not lost....not really.

This field was enormous... Landsdowne Monument on horizon

Now THAT's a nice cottage

Thanks farmer...

...no really, it's fine...

... we'll find it. No problem.  Just keep planting all over the right of way.

Gladstone's Victorian church

'The good is oft interred with their bones'

On the road down to Lacock

Night and day

Bewley Court, outskirts of Lacock

The bridge and causeway at the end of the walk.