Quite an unusual Centitaph at the Coranation Gardens, Buckley,
The first heritage sculpture (no 7) that we encountered on the veast side of Knowl Hill Gravel Pits, now an SSCI (access restrictedas a site with Great crested newts known to be breeding.
No 2 o the Sculpture on the trail.
The vtrack along the old railway track towardss the Brick Lane Works.
St., Matthew's Church, Bistre, Buckley.
Distant views of the Clwydian Hills including Moel Famau.
A view of Moel Famau is a mst on any Flintshire walk!
Happy memories of swimming here with HGS and later with my father.
Distance: 10.0 miles Climb: 827' (wind vassisted GPS reading.
Time: 4 hours 49 minutes. On the moe walking average: 2.6 m.p.h. Overall walk average: 2.0m.p.h.
Temperature 20.1 - 24.0 Cesius.
Beaufort Wind Force: 1 - 3 (max gusting to 11.1 m.p.h.
Group: Martyn and Ed.
This walk was in some doubt.Ed had n electricity outage that was only resolved with calling out an elsctrician yesterday evening, and I had a power cut this morning (05-00) thankfully restored about an hour later.
Not a walk we would normally expect to do, but one I could get to the start on a bus from home.
I arrived pretty well on time, but would have been earlier had I got off the bus at The Tiv, raher than the Black Lion in Buckley.
The walk was quite challenging in terms of route finding, but with continual reference to the trail guides (not that good) and OS maps and our GPS mapping it worked quite well.
It was disappointing that the nature reserves we were hoping to walk around had no acces, so we followeed too many tracks along green metal fences. Most pools we were expecting to see, we didn't!
Birds seen or heard today included: Grey heron, Cot, Common blackbird, Herring gull and Black headed gull.
Lunch was taken near Buckley Mountain, where large stones gave us a suitable place to sit, at least off road, but notwith a particularly good views.
The surprise of the day was the number of green spaces around Buckley that we encountered - a real bonus for the Buckley area.
Very little of the walk was in open countryside, but we did get a short section around istre Cottage Farm that gave us good views towards Llandega, the Clocaenog Wind Farm and eventually Moel Famau.
We arrived back at the car, having had a good and "interesting" walk and looking forward to a decent pint of beer.
Buckle is not kown for pubs having real ale, so I was only to happy to agree with Ed's suggestion to drive to the Central Hotel (a Wetherspoons) for refreshment. Not the best selection on, but it stop me trying one or two!
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