Maesbury Castle is an iron age hill fort about 3 miles from our home in Shepton. When Nicky finished work we all set off and parked nearby and walked about one and a half miles to the site.
The surrounding fields are very pleasant traditional hay meadows. The grasses were very varied and had some beautiful flowers. We were pleasantly surprised to find a collection of
Common Spotted Orchids, less impressive but very pretty was the
Hedge Woundwort.
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| Traditional Hay Meadow |
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| Common Spotted Orchid |
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Hedge Woundwort
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| Grasshopper |
Just before the site was a very old Beech and Hawthorn hedge which had beautiful exposed gnarly roots.
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Gnarly roots
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Hawthorn
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| Hawthorn and Beech Hedge |
On the fort the views were breathtaking. I'm looking forward to going back with binoculars and, one day, a proper camera.
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| Bristol Channel |
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Westbury
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| Glastonbury |
George just loved running in the long grass, we filmed a short video of him running around in circles. Of course Oscar had a great time in the back pack carrier and mooing at cows.
I recorded a track of our walk on my phone using My Tracks which you can
check out here!
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