St Katharine’s, Tottenham Park, Savernake. 4.25 miles.
Date: : Thursday 14th November
Time: 10.00 am – 12.30 pm
Location: St Katherine's Church
This route starts from St Katharine’s church and goes across Tottenham Park. As it crosses the main driveway, Column Ride, there is a distant view of Tottenham House, a Palladian mansion built in 1820 and currently undergoing extensive restoration. The route then goes over the road at Durley and into Savernake Forest on good tracks.
Our group of 13 walkers stopped for a short break at the Column. A monument erected by the Earl of Ailesbury in 1781 to honour King George II. The track from the column, Three Oak Hill Drive, meets with the hard track of the Grand Avenue of beech trees at a T junction. From that junction a right turn will bring walkers back to the Durley road but our route back to St Katharine’s (as shown in brief on the map) took a route which looped across to join the Grand Avenue on minor paths through a fenced area of mainly oaks.
This is a lovely route in autumn. Our walk was dry but we were a little late in the season, and the weather too dull, to experience the full glory of the autumn colours. However, the carpet of golden leaves crunching underfoot were just as pleasing.
Please note that the fenced area has cattle grazing on it in the summer months and the paths through Savernake Forest are not public rights-of-way and could be closed at any time, particularly for forest management reasons.
No stiles.
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