Tetbury to Westonbirt

Gloucestershire                                                              Photos by Hetty

13th March 2017

A walk with the Cotswold Wardens on a lovely sunny spring morning.                   Map of walk

Tetbury Market House

We met in the centre of Tetbury, near Shaun the Sheep

The stream flows over the road at Cutwell

A phoenix on a column – the only part of Highgrove we saw (Prince Charles’ house)

Rebuilding a drystone wall – it is an art

Elmstree House

Lots of gulls in this field until the horse started running around

Entrance to Westonbirt House

Westonbirt House (now a school) – once home to the Holfords, who founded the arboretum opposite

The Hare and Hounds

Entrance to Elmstree House (that we passed earlier)

The drive to Elmstree House

Doughton

Their were 40 of us on the walk – rather a lot when crossing stiles!

Horseshoe art

Reflection in a pond

Lots of blossom

Former Toll House, Bath Road – but there was an older one on the old road

Old road over the old bridge

The huge ‘new’ bridge

St Mary’s Church, rebuilt 1777

More signs of spring – the leaves are starting to grow

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