21 June 2026

Stoke Prior & Risbury

The hot days were back again, and I chose to get out early and therefore back before it got too hot.
I had selected another walk from the Kittiwake book around Leominster. It starts from the same car park as the last walk climbing up and over the hills to reach Stretford. Then looping around to Humber burial ground before reaching Risbury Hillfort. Returning over the fields to Stoke Prior, and a track either side of the road. Finally along side the A44 to the railway station and back to the car park.

19 June 2026

Kimbolton, Bache Camp & Eaton Hill

I noticed that two of the routes in the kittiwake book for Leominster used vary similar/ overlapping routes so I though I could combine the two and make a slightly longer route.
I would start on the Kimbolton walk, and swap onto the bache camp route, just after the church. Around the camp and back along the Herfordshire trail which both routes used.
Where they separated to return to Leominster by different routes, I would follow the first one over Eaton Hill.

17 June 2026

Wellington Wood & Westhorpe Common

After several days doing things around the house it was time to get out and do some more local exploring. I played safe and found a couple of routes in the Kittiwake book that I could join together and set out for the little village of Wellington. Although it is close to several A roads all the connections are on single track lanes. Parking is also a bit of a problem - I did not want to leave the car on the side of the main access roads and cause an issue if a larger load wanted to come past. In the end I parked in front of the social club and ran away before they could object.

14 June 2026

Burton Hill, Woebley

Another local walk to day - the next door village of Woebley (famous for being in Hamnet film) had a number of walks is several publications. One that appears in almost all of them and the on-line listings, was a circular walk down to Burton Hill and back in a loop.

09 June 2026

Crychan Forest & Sugar Loaf

I had to go over to Llandovery and collect a fleece for Steph to process, and this gave me some time and the opportunity to take a walk in Crychan Forest. I had seen the signs on previous visits and looking at the map picked out a medium sized walk along the public rights of way.