Walk 6 - 5th July 2012 - Lydney to Bullo Pill

Thanks to the friendly staff at the Over Farm Market, we parked our cars in the car park and caught the bus to Lydney. 
From the town centre we walked through the park with the beautiful lake pictured on the left, over Lydney Junction (train station) and down to the Marina and the River Severn. We had hoped to walk all the way to Newnham on Severn and thus link up with the start of the last walk.

Instead our plans were thwarted - many of the footpaths were overgrown - 6 foot high in places and very dense. We literally had to hack our way through. The weeds, the wet and the mud, made our progress very slow. After 6 miles we admitted defeat at Bullo Pill. The missing section between Bullo and Newnham to be made up at a future date. 

 Lydney Marina.

Beautiful rolling countryside. Home to some massive slow worms and a rather magnificent grass snake!

 Crossing over the railway. On the bricks of the bridge somebody with the initials MJM had recorded their many trips on foot over the bridge. The most recent 'etching' below says 'MJM 1/2/12 - 80 years of age'. Julie and I both hoped we would be walking such terrain at such a good age and we wondered who MJM was. Sometimes MJM was accompanied by someone with the same last initial. Husband, wife, daughter, son - I guess we will never know.

Looking across the river to Sharpness. 

 Mud glorious mud!

More mud!