Gallery Notes - Go West Walk 2022
The gallery contains all the pictures worth seeing from the entire journey, set out chronologically in sections for each day.
The captions are necessarily brief: more detail about each day can be found in the diary sections in the main part of the site. Where the same caption applies to more than one picture it comes at the end of the sequence of images.
Please respect copyright for all of these images: I have been known to get cross!
Day One, 06/07 - Finchley to Latimer (24 miles)
Dollis Brook at Lovers Walk, Finchley
Burtonhole Lane
Path 24...
On the London Loop
Welcome to Hertfordshire
Elstree in the distance
Aldenham reservoir
Crossing the M1
Oxhey Park, Watford
Finding the Chess Valley
Goodbye M25...
Along the Chess Valley to Latimer
Day Two, 07/07 - Latimer to Ibstone (22 miles)
Latimer church
Further along the Chess Valley Walk beyond Latimer
Under the Metropolitan Line - a big tunnel for a small railway
Amersham Old Town
Shardeloes Park Lake
Shardeloes House
Field path at Mop End
On Church Lane path approaching Hughenden
Hughenden Church
Hughenden Manor
On the way to Downley
First view of West Wycombe
Retrospect from West Wycombe hill
Hellfire Caves, West Wycombe
West Wycombe
Looking back to West Wycombe from Bullocks Farm Lane
War memorial, Wheeler End Common
The Turville Valley, from above Fingest
Fingest Church
The Chequers, Fingest
Sheep in the shade
Turville Mill
The Bull and Butcher, Turville
Turville
Escaped sheep, on the climb up to Ibstone
Day Three, 08/07 - Ibstone to Goring (19 miles)
On the Chiltern Way towards Christmas Common
Watlington Hill
Near Swyncombe
Swyncombe church
Swyncombe House gardens
Near Ewelme
Nuffield church (with drinking water tap!)
Along Grim's Ditch
Stream at North Stoke
North Stoke church
The River Thames approaching Goring
Day 4, (09/07) - Goring to Woolstone (22 miles)
Goring lock
Runners on the Ridgeway, near Post Box Cottage
Streatley Warren
Near Lowbury Hill
Blewbury Down
On Compton Downs
Bury Down, the A34 trunk road in the background
East Hendred Down
Scutchamer's Knob burial mound
East Ginge Down
Lindsay Monumen, Betterton Down
Near Letcombe hillfort
Warren Down
On Hackpen Hill (one of several)
Near Hill Barn
Climbing up to Rams Hill
Whitehorse Hill, near Uffington
Dragon Hill
Uffington White Horse from an unusual angle
Day 5, (10/07) - Woolstone to Avebury (22 miles)
Waylands Smithy (long barrow)
Near Ashbury
Above Bishopstone
Near Charlbury Hill
Crossing the M4, Wanborough Plain
Climbing Liddington Hill
On Liddington Hill
Approaching Ogbourne St George
On Coombe Down
On Smeathes Ridge
Barbury Castle
Uffcott Down
On White Horse Hill, Winterbourne
Hackpen Hill (another), first view of the downs beyond Avebury
Berwick Bassett Down
The Herepath descending to Avebury
Avebury
Day 6, (11/07) - Avebury to Corsham (21 miles)
Avebury
The Long Stones, Avebury Trusloe
On the Wessex Ridgeway, Cherhill Down
Oldbury hillfort and the Cherhill Monument
South from Cherhill
Retrospect to Oldbury
On the old Roman road from London to Bath
The end of the chalk downlands, near Heddington
Heddington church
Long straight road to the next pub...
View from Bowden Hill
Gateway by Bowden Park
More from Bowden Hill
St Anne's church, the "church in the clouds"
Lacock village
Gastard
Corsham almshouses
Corsham
Last steps to my overnight stay
Day 7, (12/07) - Corsham to Bristol (23 miles)
Approaching Box Hill
Looking back to Box Hill en route to Colerne
Over Lidbrooks Bottom, Colerne
Cottages in Colerne
Peeking into Gloucestershire
Marshfield
Marshfield almshouses
Footpath improvement - footbridge on Brookhouse Lane
Brookhouse lane - this is a "track"
Middledown Road, near Dyrham
Views from Sands Hill, above Dyrham
Dyrham Park - the view the National Trust would rather hide
Crossing the Bristol outer ring road
St James's church, Mangotsfield
Old parish boundary stone, Frome Bridge, Frenchay
Frenchay church
The Dower House, Bristol
The M32 roaring into Bristol
Day 8, (13/07) - Rest day in Bristol
Day 9, (14/07) - Bristol to Cheddar (23 miles)
Floating Harbour, Bristol
M-Shed Museum, Floating Harbour, Bristol
Looking back to Bristol from Dundry Hill
Chew Valley Lake from Dundry Hill
Ahead to the Mendip Hills, from Dundry Hill
Chew Stoke
Gravel Hill, Chew Stoke
Plaster's Green
Pit Lane, near Nempnett Thrubwell
Ubley church
Blagdon Lake from Ubley Sideling
Ubley Hill, the climb to the Mendips
Blagdon Lake from the top of Ubley Hill
Charterhouse church
Velvet Bottom, the descent towards Cheddar Gorge
Black Rock, Cheddar Gorge
Cheddar Gorge
Cheddar Market Cross
Day 10, (15/07) - Cheddar to Bridgwater (19 miles)
Looking back to the Mendips from near Hythe
Clewer
Retrospect from Clewer Long Hill
Crickham
Stoughton Cross
Blackford
Fosse Lane Westham, heading on to the levels
Straight roads crossing the levels
River Brue at River Bridge
Plaque by River Bridge
Brent Knoll in the distance
Old railway crossing, Liberty Moor
Cripps River at Eastern Moor Bridge...
...and again at Gold Corner
The semi-reservoir of Huntspill River, Gold Corner
Approaching Cossington, goodbye flat lands
On the Bawdrip Heritage Trail
Bawdrip's unusual cruciform church
King's Sedgemoor Drain at Bradney Bridge
Well are they? Agricultural supermarket, Bridgwater
Crossing the M5 - on form with a large queue
West Quay, Bridgwater
Day 11, (16/07) - Bridgwater to Washford (22 miles)
Durleigh Church
Durleigh Reservoir and West Bower Manor
Enmore
Views on the ascent to the Quantock Ridge
On Merridge Hill
Birches Corner
On Lydeard Hill
Bagborough Hill
Hinckley Point construction blights the sea view
Will's Neck, the top of the Quantocks, 1,261ft
Descent to Triscombe Stone
Avenue of ancient trees, Great Hill
On West Hill
Retrospect from Crowcombe Combe Gate
The Welsh coast in the distance
Crowcombe Park Gate, Black Hill ahead
On Black Hill
The Halsway Post
View to Exmoor from Black Ball Hill
Hinckley Point construction again...
The top of Bicknoller Combe
Bicknoller Combe
The "ford" in Bicknoller Combe
Approaching Bicknoller
The West Somerset Railway
Looking back to the Quantocks, Cottiford
Doniford Stream
Sampford Brett
Footpath approach to Torre
Day 12, (17/07) - Washford to Exford (16 miles)
The Washford valley in early morning light
Rodhuish
Rodhuish church
Sea view from Stout's Way Lane
Along Stout's Way Lane, over hills and through woods
Kingsbridge
Luxborough
Uphill from Luxborough
Above Old Stowey
Couple Cross, once more over 1,000 feet up
Dunkery Beacon, teasing from afar
Looking towards Hurlstone Point, beyond Porlock
The Hare Path, near Wheddon Cross
Hoe Combe, from the Hare Path
Dunkery Beacon from Thorne Lane
The long and winding Thorne Lane
A peek into the Exe Valley from near Stone Cross
Exford church
The Exe at Exford
Exford
Day 13, (18/07) - Exford to Barnstaple (21 miles)
Very early start from Exford
Along the road to Simonsbath
Approaching Simonsbath
St Luke's church, Simonsbath
Simonsbath old bridge
River Barle
Views into the Barle valley
The Fortescue cairn monument
Retrospect from Blue Gate
A distant farewell to Dunkery Beacon and high Exmoor
Approaching Kinsford Gate, the highest point of the journey (1,534ft)
Looking into Devon from Kinsford Gate
A sharp downhill welcome to Devon
The Poltimore Arms at Sherracombe Cross
Views from Beara Hill, last moments in Exmoor National Park
Brayford
Distant view of the sea, near Kimbland Cross
Chapel of The Holy Name, Gunn
Gunn
Goodleigh
Valley of the Barnstaple Yeo River
Barnstaple - journey's end
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