A late morning stroll was the order of the day after home made pastries
for breakfast. We chose to go to Bestwood country park and have a stroll in
the woods, keeping out of the wind. We parked at the western end of the park
on the outskirts of Bestwood village, in the car park for the Winding engine
house.
We walked up past the winding house and into the woods beyond
Alongside the fields in the middle, then we climbed into the north side
woods.
Picking up a bridleway we turned back east, as we reach the boundary we turned
across the highest point, winding across the main path.
Into the Warrenhill plantation, then down to the Alexandra lodges. Here we chose
to curve back to the start out of the park.
We left on Robin Hood way into Killarney Park - a retirement residential area of
prefab houses.
Beyond the village we turned back west through the Crimea plantation climbing
to the top of a ridge. Beyond the view opened out across the Lean valley. We walked across the beet fields in a straight line back towards Bestwood village.
Unfortunately there was a new development in exactly the place where we could cross into the village, so we had to go down to the B683, then back into the village and the maze of streets back to the car park. A couple of dead ends and we came out next to the entrance.
