A bit of a random ramble today, and squelchy everywhere thanks to yesterday's rain. This was a good enough walk, nothing special, but probably more interesting later in the year when the flowers are out and the ground less soggy.
Napton Reservoir car park (SP465631), across a lock gate at Calcutt Locks, bridle path to Calcutt Spinney, north past Calcutt House Farm to Calcutt Elms Farm, SW past Calcutt Farm (the farmer, busy herding sheep, kindly let me use his farm track, but on reflection the proper footpath across the open field would have been more interesting) and back along the canal to the start.
That's a lot of Calcutts. In addition there are the groundworks of the medieval Calcutt (or 'Caldecote') village, but in the rain which came on I just wanted to march on and and get back to the car.
Didn't plan this walk very well, and made it a circular route more by luck than judgement. To make it a little more worthwhile in the future, I'd go south along the canal, east from Napton Junction and along the east side of Calcutt Wood - and do it on a dryer, sunnier day.
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| Another Wellie walk. The suction wading through the mud almost removed my boots a couple of times. |
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| A lichen and moss jungle, millimetres high, on the edge of a gatepost. |
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| Another lichen landscape on a twig. |
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| Old farmhouse at Calcutt Elms Farm |
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