Ilmington From Worcester News
THIS week s walk is for Worcester News readers patagonia down sweater saleMaureen and Jim, of Pershore, who enjoyed last year s Ilmington and Mickleton walk so mupatagonia houdini compare2ch that they
requested another. This covers some of the same ground on the basis that it would be a great pity to miss out Ebrington Hill, but instead of then heading west to Mickleton, it heads south to
This includes parkland around Foxcote House which is studded with massive ancient trees, mainly oak and lime. Opatagonia houdini compare1n higher ground, bordering the bridleway from Madgcombe Coppice to Foxcote Farm,
avenues of splendid beech trees are interspersed with twisted, gnarly old elder trees whose claw like roots cling to tumbledown, mossy stone walls.
Some of the pastureland at Compton Scorpion is marked with the ridge and furrow pattern of mediaeval ploughing, indicating that these fields have not been ploughed for about 600 or 700 years, since
strip cultivation gave way to sheep farming.
The peasants who had previously cultivated the land may have been thrown off patagonia down sweater limited editionit to make way for more profitable sheep, or it may be that they were wiped out by the Black Death.
Traces of their village survive as earthworks about half a mile south of Compton Scorpion Farm.
In the gorse studded valley below Redlands Barn, the pastures are full of ancient anthills, another sign that there has been no ploughing for centuries.
Old anthills add significantly to local biodiversity because their soilpatagonia houdini compare structure differs from that of the surrounding pasture, allowing them to support a different range of wild plants. They also
attract green woodpeckers, which love to feed on ants.
The once common skylark has now vanished from much of the countryside but it s clinging on here. Dozens of these small birds with big voices still fill the air with song above Ebrington Hill and
Ilmington Downs, adding to the sense of space and freedom which pervades these breezy uplands.
The top of Ebrington Hill is the highest point in Warwickshire, althougpatagonia women's better sweater jacketh at a mere 261m (856ft), it s hardly mountainous. It s high enough, however, to offer good views of the Cotswolds and the
vales of Stour and Avon.
1 Walk along Middle Street then turn right on a footpath to Back Street. Turn left, then shortly right on Hurdlers Lane. Keep straight on at the end of the lane, along a footpath. Ignoring a
cross path, proceed to another junction, turn right on a bridleway and follow it across rolling downlapatagonia houdini compare3nd. There is potential for confusion at times as some yellow arrows have mistakenly been used
in the waymarking (it should be blue for a bridleway) but if you bear this in mind you won t go wrong. Fork left when you come to a junction near a house and walk through Stoke Wood. Proceed to a
lane at Upper Lark Stoke and climb to the top of Ebrington Hill to find a junction near a telecoms installation.
2 Turn left on a bridleway, follow it to a lane and turn right. Take the next bridleway on the left, after about 400m. Keep left at subsequent junctions, eventually descending to meet an access
road. Turn left past Foxcote Farm. After about 300m, fork right by the entrapatagonia everlong review for nursesnce to Foxcote House, joining a footpath which soon turns right through a plantation. Having left the trees, continue
through pasture and turn left when you come to a junction.
Descend steeply into a valley and turn right at the bottom. Go to the far end where a gate gives access to anotpatagonia everlong review 4 drher plantation. The path through the trees is marked only by bits of yellow tape stuck
to branches, but is followed easily enough until a stile gives access to a pasture. Go roughly straight across, passing to the left of Compton Scopatagonia guide jacket holderrpion Farm to meet an unfenced lane. Turn left.
4 Go through a concealed and unsigned metal gate on the left, patagonia guide jacket queenjust before a stile on the right.
Follow the left hand field edge to the top left corner then keep to the left edge of the patagonia guide jacket 6xlnext field, go thrpatagonia houdini compare0ough a gate and follow waymarks through woodland then across downland, climbing to meet a
lane. Cross to a bridleway opposite which is also an access road for Foxcote House press a button to open the gate. Turn right at a junction after 300m and walk to the top of Knowlands Hill.
5 An easily followed footpath opposite leads straight down to Ilmington, if you re looking for the most direct route. However, if you don t mind walking a little further, it s more interespatagonia messenger bag tutorialting to
