A walk near Chatsworth

Apologies for not keeping you up to date with what I've been doing. [Too busy on my other blog - that's a more personal, topical and provocative one - let me know if you're interested in looking into The Pit].

Yesterday though we went through the bluebell filled woods above Rowsley. The photos I took were slightly disappointing being rather bleached so instead you've got one of the pond on Calton Pastures.

It was a cloudy day and whilst we were walking between 3 and 5 pm there were very few people about though we did bump into someone we know.

It was a lovely walk from Rowsley up Church Lane passing Bouns Corner before we took the Haddon Estate concessionary path through Manners Wood. This brought us out onto Calton Pastures where we walked across the fields, past the tumulus and into the wood again by the bridleway which drops down into Manners Wood. We had a coffee here and having passed through a couple of farmgates on the bridleway watched a cyclist haul his bike over the ladder stile. We were too tired to climb the stile whilst he said he was too knackered to open two gates !

Then we walked down the bridleway which is much drier than it has been before getting back to the car.

No problems - just a beautiful springtime walk in England admiring the spectacular display of bluebells.