Memory walk

 

 This will be a memory for some one who reads this and might make them smile with all the bad weather going on over the pond there.

This is an old roman road that runs through Cholsey on it's way past Dorchester which is the other side of the horizon 

Just after I took the last photo I noticed a clump of daffodils growing

I had taken the dog out for a walk along a different route leading to this place known as Silly Bridge. If your wondering why the name well back when the buiilt the railway the locals used to take their cattle and sheep to graze on the common land on the other side. The railway did not want to build it but the locals insisted, in the end they got their way. Not long after the enclosures act cam in and the local landowners grabbed the common land and the locals lost the right to take their stock over the bridge. It just leads to the fields on the other side. Mind you they also built a lunatic asylum a mile away and it was a favorite place to go and jump off so that cold also be where the name came from.

That's the railway below now electrified

That;s what it looks like by the bridge, no way do you survive that little jump

Nice juicy sloes the birds have yet to eat  

The track leading to Silly Bridge

And back to the village

Nearer the village, just ahead was a place we called the pit  and the kids used to play in, it was an old chalk quarry, it was filled in many years ago more is the shame. I might add there was also a WWII Horsa Glider that was nearby and a lady mad into a house, after she died it was moved off and restored 

End of the walk and back to the village

 Happy SkyWatch