I had a really good night's sleep, waking only once in the early hours to hear a fox barking nearby and then moving away. I was away by 7am, stopping for breakfast an hour or so later just before reaching Hook Norton. Definitely on home ground around here. The Way passed through the village, through some allotments and then up a hillside to pass through Fanville Farm and across fields to Great Rollright, along a wide ridge path where I stopped for elevenses not far from the
Rollright Stones and then through the tiny settlement of Little Rollright, now only a church, a manor house and a couple of cottages.
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| Leafy avenue at Brighthill Farm |
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| Little Rollright |
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| Little Rollright |
I walked on to Salford and then home by lunchtime. Mission accomplished. The rest of the d'Arcy Dalton Way, about forty miles, will wait for another time. Around 9 miles walked.
This weekend, I took with me an
Omron III pedometer which I bought recently having been reading that, to keep healthy and active, I must walk at least 10,000 steps a day. So, the weekend's step count was Friday 17,086, Saturday 51,607 and today 24695.
Now there's thing. I was on the Thames Path end of last weekand some where along the way I spotted a sign for... you guessed the D'Arcy Dalton Way!
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