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tjj May 9, 2010 18:12:17
Replying to thesweetcheat

thesweetcheat wrote:
tjj wrote:
Tsc, I thought of you today as did a great 11 mile walk starting at Andoversford - taking in sections of the Gloucestershire and Cotswold Ways, no ancient monuments but loads of bluebell woods. A very beautiful part of the country indeed. At one point we could see as far as Shropshire - one of the group pointed to Wrekin Hill.

atb
june

Lovely, the nearest prehistoric excitement to that (quite near the Cotswold way) are the long barrows at Lineover and Coberley. Neither particularly well-preserved sadly. Which way did you head?

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/4681/lineover.html
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/8441/coberley_long_barrow.html

You were only about 4 miles from my house there!

We've just got back from Prestatyn, having made a start after about 20 years on my intention to walk Offa's Dyke path from north to south. Probably take us another 20 years though!

I must have gone very close to the barrows you've mentioned tsc - unfortunately this little group of ramblers was not too megalithic minded.
The walk took in Foxcote, Coberley, Lineover Wood and Upper Dowdeswell. We did see the start of Offa's Dyke when we stopped for a bit to look at the view. (A few people exchanged 'staggering uphill stories').

Good luck with Offa's Dyke - I'd like to give that a go myself, bits of it anyway.

T thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat May 9, 2010 19:23:08
Replying to tjj

tjj wrote:
thesweetcheat wrote:
tjj wrote:
Tsc, I thought of you today as did a great 11 mile walk starting at Andoversford - taking in sections of the Gloucestershire and Cotswold Ways, no ancient monuments but loads of bluebell woods. A very beautiful part of the country indeed. At one point we could see as far as Shropshire - one of the group pointed to Wrekin Hill.

atb
june

Lovely, the nearest prehistoric excitement to that (quite near the Cotswold way) are the long barrows at Lineover and Coberley. Neither particularly well-preserved sadly. Which way did you head?

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/4681/lineover.html
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/8441/coberley_long_barrow.html

You were only about 4 miles from my house there!

We've just got back from Prestatyn, having made a start after about 20 years on my intention to walk Offa's Dyke path from north to south. Probably take us another 20 years though!

I must have gone very close to the barrows you've mentioned tsc - unfortunately this little group of ramblers was not too megalithic minded.
The walk took in Foxcote, Coberley, Lineover Wood and Upper Dowdeswell. We did see the start of Offa's Dyke when we stopped for a bit to look at the view. (A few people exchanged 'staggering uphill stories').

Good luck with Offa's Dyke - I'd like to give that a go myself, bits of it anyway.

Lineover Wood must be lovely at this time of year. Lineover barrow is right next to it. If you went to Foxcote you will also have been very close to St Paul's Epistle round barrow. Offa's Dyke path is 177 miles long and so far we've managed just over 7.5!!! Partly because we're incorporating into longer circular routes. Impressed with Clywd though, nice clearly way-marked paths, not overgrown, very good.