Strolling through Wepre Woods.
Wepre Brook seen from the path to Ewloe Castle.
One view of Ewloe Castle.
The highest accessible part of Ewloe Castle.
The "new" Flint Bridge over the River Dee seen as we descended the path on the west side of Old aston Hill.
A Song thrush tries to hide from the camera.
Our lunch spot at Northop Hall Memorial, but who is that in the nughty boy corner?
St., Mary's Church at Northop Hall but the clock has stopped.
Looking back at the superbly repaired replacement of an old bridge on the railway track Broadoak Wood.
Interesting place for War Memorial figures o the island in the middle of Rosie Fishing Pond in Wepre Park.
Walks Stats:
Distance: 8.6 miles. Climb: 814'.
Time: 4 hours 22 minutes. On themove waling average: 2.3 m.p.h. Overall walk average: 2.0 m.p.h.
Temperature: !1.2 Celsius at lunch.
Beaufort Wind Force: 0 - 2. Largely calm (no wind) and occasionally gusting t light air and once briefly treated us to a light breeze!
Group: Martyn, Wendy, David S., Sue and Michel and Ed (this was the first time ever that he was the last to arrive!).
This was a superb day for walking, bright and sunny with temperature soon rising to a very pleasant 10+ Celsius.
We set off wearing our Winter jackets, expecing the feel like temperature to be around 7 Celsius, but after visiting Ewloe Castle, most of us decided to shed our outer jackets for the rest of the day.
As we contoured around the remains of the Old Aston Hill Quarry, we were informed by a local that it was knwn locally as Morgan's Hill after the company that had used the quarry as a landfill site.
Lunch was taken at the Memorial in Northop Hall, a longer than usual lunch sstop as we enoyed basking in the warm sunshine.
The return journey took us along the edge of a sports field where storm damaged had resulted in a tree / bush blocking the path making us duck under the spectator barrier of the football pitch to get round the obstruction.
In the small wood that followed, I slipped on the mood and had a closer look and feel of the mud's texture than I really wanted. No harm s done, and I got up and was pleased to find no mud on my trousers - pleased as I had only washed them two days before.The strolalong the old dimantled railway track was very pleasant as the sun's rays was able to get through the trees thanks to there beong a lack of foliage on them.
Birds seen or heard today included: Woopigeon, Jackdaw, Common buzzard,Carrion crow, House sparrw, Blue tit, Great tit, Mallard, European robin, Commmon blackbird and Song thrush.
Overall an enjoyable walk, capped off by some with a pint of JHB at The Central (Wetherspoons) in Shotton.
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