Our New(ish) Village Footpaths

We moved to our new house last October, so it's not really so new. But we've been exploring the new set of footpaths that surround us here (we're just a few villages down from Naunton, still in the beautiful Cotswolds). Our favorite path winds past the old railway embankment, crosses the tracks, and leads to the neighboring village. It also crosses the stream (which here is technically a river) twice and we've spotted lots of fish and crawdads. Justin also dropped a shoe in the river once, but that's another story. Fortunately, it was a buoyant Croc so we rescued it with a long stick...

Anyway, here's (one of) our new favorite places to walk in our village.




That bridge you see up above is the best crawdad-spotting place on the walk. We saw a bunch and looked up the species. It turns out that the native crawdads are being crowded out by an invasive species from America, and that's the species we saw in our local stream. Hopefully the locals don't feel the same way in the village...







You can't see very well in the photo, but in the picture above there are the trademark medieval bumps in the field that demonstrate that people have been farming here for a looong time.


And these truck tracks run along the old railway embankment, Justin's favorite part of the walk (aside from the part that crosses the actual tracks.)


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  1. Lynn Scarlett24 May 2019 at 11:29

    I recognize this walk—and remember the (large) crawdads. Lovely countryside, though, admittedly, not quite as alluring as Naunton with its rolling hills and thoroughbred horses gamboling about.

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