Urban Escape

Walk preview

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   Step 1: Begin your walk at the bottom of the park at the Woodseats entrance. From here wander up through the thick woods alongside a babbling brook.

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   Step 2: The trees here are mainly common alders and in the spring the floor is carpeted with brilliant bluebells.

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   Step 3: The path forks by a horse chestnut tree and slopes up to the right, and across to the left is an old packhorse bridge.

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   Step 4: This road was turnpiked by an Act of 1756, and was once a main route to London for stagecoaches and other vehicles until c. 1795.

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   Step 5: Once around the car park, take the top path across open grassland.

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   Step 6: In places it's easy to forget you are so close to a city.