Information Board

Posted on July 1, 2026 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

A slightly cooler week with temps topping about 24 degrees C (75F), which is a nice temperature to be working in.

Eight board blokes turned out to put up something that has been in the planning stage for ages. Marcus, Reece, Ian, Andrew, Steve, Mark, Ram, and Paul.

We started the session by having to dig 500mm holes in very rocky ground.

This was pretty tough going and took us the good part of an hour.

We broke for coffee and ginger biscuits at half-time.

And then it was trying to get the board into the ground and secure.

Eventually, we managed it, and the information board tells everyone about the greenway and shows off the views.

The board has been sponsored and paid for by Cawston Parish Council. We are extremely grateful for their support.

We also carried on strimming and covered a further 400 metres, so happy with that.

We like to keep the entry points clear and the actual path about 4 metres wide so people can walk side-by-side.

The bench that we need to repair can look like this other one. The cost will be about £35.

We can use the scrap wood to shore up the path down the line if we get permission to work down there.

Lastly, we did a litter pick to keep it looking welcoming and pleasing to the eye.

Cracking day and so pleased that we have finally got this bit of the jigsaw in place.

Dunchurch Bridleway:

Just me and Ian last Friday on another sweltering day.

It’s simply about keeping the path open and usable. We can start to widen it in the winter if we feel that it needs it.

We brought plenty of water and juice to keep us hydrated.

It was incredibly hot work, but we made it to the end. Next week we push on with the strimming and also a bit of bench maintenance. At some point, everything will stop growing like crazy!!

Our biggest problem is bramble. We cut it back, and it seems to spur it on to grow twice as fast…

Loads of stuff in the pipeline and hopefully some really positive developments.

Thanks for reading if you got this far, and now it’s time to celebrate England winning the football after being 1-0 down!!

Until next time!

Paul

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Another Heatwave

Posted on June 24, 2026 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

We’re once again caught in the middle of a massive heatwave.

To be fair, the mornings are pretty OK, but by the time the afternoon ticks around, it’s muggy and close, and everyone is getting tetchy.

For anyone thinking, paah, that’s nothing, for us here in England, it is hot!

Six sun worshippers turned out for our usual path edge strim. Martin, Ian, Marcus, Andrew, Ram, and Paul.

We covered about 700 metres, which is pretty good going. The greenway is divided into five sections, with each being about 700 metres in length, so this means everything gets pegged back before it starts to invade the path space.

We broke for chilled water and Oreo biscuits at half-time. The views from here are superb, both up and down the path, and to the sides. Lots of lovely dappled sunlight hitting the ground.

There was not a chance that I was going to start dishing out hot coffee in this heat.

We worked hard to keep the entry points open, and also maintain the width so people can walk two-abreast. Judging by the number of people coming past, this concept is working well.

Our wildflower patch north of the underpass is alive and buzzing with insects.

This is quite fortunate because we didn’t really clear it off at the end of last year. We must do it this year, or it will become scrubby and not good.

We also did our usual trick with the sprouts on our tree trunks.

If we leave them, the trees will end up looking like this.

Personally, I don’t like this look at all.

We have a picnic bench that needs new seating and a table top.

The wood is 177 cm long, 7.4 cm wide, and 3.0 cm thick. A nice little project to price up and make happen in a few month’s time.

We have had the numbers made for our mile marker posts, thanks to Ian’s son, David.

This is another project that is slowly inching towards completion.

I attempted to stain a few of the benches, and try as I might…

…I still ended up looking like spotted dick!

The white T-shirt and shorts were probably not the best items to wear!

We finished with a litter-pick.

And called it a day just as it was starting to get really hot.

Popehill Spinney:

The path that runs through Popehill Spinney and connects with the National Cycle Network Route 41 is now open and passable.

It needs a bit of work in a couple of places to divert standing water, but someone is working hard to sort this out.

If we can get permission to work down there, then we are more than willing to help in any way that we can.

It’s all good stuff and done for the greater good.

Next one is on the Dunchurch Bridleway, working on the most westerly section, and then next Wednesday is our big reveal!!

It’s gonna be epic!!

Thanks for reading if you got this far.

Until next time!

Paul

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Tom Brown’s Schooldays

Posted on June 17, 2026 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

Another damp start as spring finally lets go, and we welcome a new season. The summer solstice takes place this weekend, and we look forward to long, hot days, warm nights, clear skies, and buzzing wildlife.

It was a muggy morning after the weather dumped a ton of rainwater on us overnight. That, one would’ve thought, would clear the air, but not a chance.

Seven strimmer-happy superheroes made it, Dave, Martin, Reece, Matt, Ram, Mark, and Paul, and we worked on pushing the path edge back half a metre.

Every bit of vegetation seems hellbent on growing into the space that we have made for humans. If we let it encroach, it becomes dense and brambly, and our bit gets narrow and horrible.

We can push the scrub back in the autumn to give the pollinator strip more width, but it is not coming onto the path.

The benches were due to be re-stained, but it was too wet. We covered about 800 metres, with seven strimmers going. Pretty good progress.

We also knocked off a bit of lower growth on a few trees.

We want the canopy at the top of the tree so that sunlight can get to the ground, and they look more tree-like from an aesthetic point of view.

Our flood defences were broken, and we had the stream snaking down the path again.

However, by the end of the session, the drainage had caught up, and the stream had disappeared.

We broke for coffee and biscuits at half-time.

The views up and down the trail, as it started to brighten up.

In other news, we had the pupils from Bilton Grange Preparatory School come and work on their mural in the underpass.

Bilton Grange is a school in Dunchurch that feeds into Rugby School, made famous by the novel, Tom Brown’s Schooldays.

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The first photo is Bilton Grange and the second is Rugby School.

It’s always an honour to rub shoulders with the higher echelons of society.

A super job and thank you to Stefan from Bilton Grange for once again organising this brilliant annual event.

Next, we move southward. Someone is clearing the trail from the A45 road, in a southerly direction. They are also doing something with the drainage.

It’s looking like it has the potential to really nail this troublesome section.

From the other end, the progress is inching along.

At some point, they will meet in the middle, and our path then connects to the National Cycle Network Route 41, which will be pretty amazing.

Lastly, we have two new things to put in over the summer. The first is this beast.

It looks like something from the movie War of the Worlds… All will be revealed next week, hopefully.

We finished with a litter pick and a Common Spotted Orchid!

Dunchurch Bridleway:

Dave, Ian and Paul turned out last Friday, and we seem to have tamed the whole bridleway into three sections.

Westward to the picnic bench, eastward to the picnic bench, and westward to pick up Cawston Greenway.

We are still battling with the bracken, but seem to be winning.

If we don’t push everything back, people will be walking through chest-high vegetation.

I don’t wanna be going through that and get bitten to death!!

And we kept our benches clear, as per usual.

It just keeps it all pleasant and relaxing without anyone having to worry about what is crawling up their legs.

That’s it for this week. Thanks for reading if you got this far.

Father’s Day is this Sunday, so I got myself a little present…

More firepower – oh yes…

Until next time!

Paul

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An Incredibly Welcome Discovery

Posted on June 10, 2026 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

We are on a bit of a mission to try to connect with the Mothership.

North of the green ring is where we kinda stop as Cawston Greenway and go off eastwards to connect with Dunchurch Bridleway. The blue ring is what the landowners have done to connect with Leamington Spa (where the railway went when it was working), and the yellow ring is what they will be working on next. I imagine this will be from September.

The Mothership is the National Cycle Network Route 41, which is south of the YOU ARE HERE label.

I had a poke about on the south of the yellow ring and just pushed the path back a bit to allow walkers and cyclists to use it without being stung to death.

Slow progress.

On Saturday, we had a poke around from the north end of the yellow ring and just tried to work out if we could make a path through the jungle.

There are some really wet areas, and the tree canopy shade is not letting anything dry out.

It was a good session with Nathan, Ian, Dave, Martin, and Paul.

We were back down there today. The more time that we spend on the land, the more that we start to understand how everything interacts and why the water is puddling up.

Six of us made the long trudge down to where we were working. Ian, Dave, Mark, Ram, David, and Paul.

It just feels like a slog and is where we were with the Cawston Greenway some 17 years ago.

We broke for coffee and Oreo biscuits before pushing on.

And then, to our surprise, we discovered that someone else had been down here and smashed through with a brushcutter, south of the A45 bridge, and had started to channel the standing water into a gully and off the path.

This is brilliant. If we can get our standing water to join their gully, the whole thing should eventually dry out.

Anyway, we were happy to get back onto familiar ground later in the day and give our benches a lick of woodstain.

One thing that really irks me is seeing wooden benches installed and just sort of left to decay.

As you can see, we have a standard that we kinda work to. Whilst they look a bit shiny due to the wet woodstain, we do like to keep all the benches looking inviting and clean enough to eat food from.

The “pollinator highway”, which is the bit between the path and the scrub, is really starting to come on.

It’s just getting better and better as spring turns to summer. It feels magical to walk along the path with all the colours, butterflies and bees.

And lastly, a litter-pick of the whole path.

Next one is this Friday on the Dunchurch Bridleway, and then we are back on familiar soil at Berrybanks next Wednesday.

The adventure this week has taken me right out of my comfort zone…

Thanks for reading if you got this far.

Until next time!

Paul

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Jungle Time

Posted on June 3, 2026 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

Is it the start of summer? Some might say that the 1st June is indeed the start; however, I prefer to go by the Summer Solstice and work to the 21st June. At present, every bit of vegetation is growing at full pelt as it tries to out-compete its neighbour, which is definitely a spring thing. Come summer, and everything stops growing and starts flowering.

Sadly, the beautiful heat that we had last week has gone fully into reverse, and we find ourselves back in mid-to-high teens, temperature-wise.

Perhaps what is more worrying is the rain forecast.

It’s not exactly barbecue weather, which is what summer days should be all about…

The weather forecast actually lived up to its prediction this morning, and we got a bit wet, but it still seemed subtropical due to it being pretty humid, and we felt like we were in the middle of a rainforest.

Seven jungle rangers turned out. Ram, Marcus, Steve, Reece, Ian, Andrew, and Paul. We normally do up to the off-ramp and make our way across a strip of ground to get to the Dunchurch Bridleway, but we have had repeated requests to push further southwards.

The third photo is what lies ahead…

We gingerly pushed onwards by about 200 metres.

Coats were going on to keep the rain off, then being taken off because it was so humid and sweaty, but we managed to fashion a bit of a path through.

During our break, the rain really came down, and we lost Reece in the jungle.

Hot coffee and Maryland cookies, which always makes me laugh because Maryland is pronounced totally differently in the US.

Fuelled up, we pushed on.

It was steadily getting wetter and wetter, but we managed another 200 metres, so we covered 400 metres in total. Pretty good going, seeing as we didn’t have a clue what to expect and didn’t really have the right tools.

We will keep going as far as Draycote village, which is what everyone seems to want.

In other news, some baffoon pushed our Potford Dam picnic bench over the edge.

Pulled back up by Ram and me, with plenty of fuel via our new protein drink…

Whilst we were messing around with the benches, we managed to give two of our rectangular picnic tables a fresh coat of stain.

All of our benches used to be a beautiful golden-brown, but due to graffiti, they now have to be poo-brown.

Sorry, not sorry…

We also prepared all the benches on the northern end for staining.

We’re not in any mad hurry, but as long as they are done by the end of June, just to keep everything looking fresh and inviting.

All in all, a pretty good start to our campaign to just get this last bit nailed and have us actually link up to the National Cycle Network. I have told Railway Paths Ltd (the land owners) what we are doing, and their signage allows us to be here.

And lastly, we have some trees that are sprouting shoots from the trunks, so we need to deal with these very quickly.

If left, the tree starts to look like a bush.

To finish, a Welsh Poppy has somehow found its way to us.

How cool is that!!

Dunchurch Bridleway:

Just Ian and me this week due to clashing with other work going on further down the line.

We got to the picnic bench, which is where we got to from the other end last time, and also did the Right of Way that goes around the Windmill Farm field.

If people are wondering why we are so obsessed with keeping the two-metre-wide path open, this is what happens to the bit that we leave.

Nobody in their right mind wants to walk through that and get bitten to death by the insects, and as you can see, we don’t destroy the pollen-rich wildflowers.

Lastly, we enjoyed coffee and the views before cracking on…

Thanks for reading if you got this far.

Until next time!

Paul

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Scorchio

Posted on May 27, 2026 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

We seem to be in the middle of a superb hot spell, and it isn’t even Summer yet!

We have had temperatures up to 34 C (93 F) with the added bonus of a Bank Holiday weekend. What’s not to love…

Twelve sun-seekers donned our factor-50 and came out to play. Ian, Martin, Reece, Marcus, Steve, Dave, Andrew, Ruby, George, David, Ram, and Paul. We covered about 900 metres, which is a new record!!

It’s all about keeping the width, without strimming right up to the scrub edge. Something that we kept doing over the last few years because it was all so tight and narrow.

Our pollinator highway is now fully functioning.

This absolutely makes my heart sing. It’s been the missing piece of the jigsaw for such a long time.

We started the session by trying to keep our entry points open.

It’s so important that people can get on and off without having to fight through nettles and brambles.

We were both perplexed and amused that a tree and a plant could root themselves into the brickwork. It is not going to end well for one or two of the three parties. We also took care to work around the Dog Rose, which was full of bees.

A welcome cuppa and cake bar at half-time.

Having a laugh and finding a purpose really is what life is all about.

We cracked on, and quite frankly, in the heat, I don’t know how we managed to get so far…

If we can keep going at this rate, we will always be on top of the whole trail.

We strimmed around the benches so people can sit and relax.

It makes it so multi-use, rather than just a path to walk along.

We returned to the bridge access point and strimmed the nettles.

Some might say that this is a little above and beyond, but we want easy access for everyone.

Lastly, a view of where we are going next week, and a litter-pick of the whole of the Dunchurch Bridleway and two-thirds of the Greenway.

Next week, we start to re-stain our benches and really get that “WOW FACTOR” back.

In other news:

Martin has been working on a project to bring back the Mile Marker Posts.

These were used when it was a working railway, and it’s our chance to give a little nod to the heritage of the line.

We are funding this via the generous buy-me-a-coffee donations from Pauline, Adam, Simon and Jacquie, along with the patron subscriptions. So thank you very much.

We have an Interpretation Board that will appear towards the end of June. All will be revealed when it goes in.

And lastly, we have a new cafe open up along the line.

The Majic Barn Cafe near Long Itchington.

It is so important that the whole route opens up between Rugby and Leamington Spa so people can make full use of this lovely place.

The next one is on the Dunchurch Bridleway this Friday.

Thanks for reading if you got this far.

Until next time!

Paul

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A bit of a mixed bag today…

Posted on May 20, 2026 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

It was a strung-out sort of day today. That makes it sound like we are all on drugs or something…

Strung-out in the sense that we were very much spread apart.

We had Marcus and Steve looking after a group from HSBC doing a Corporate Volunteer Day. Reece, Dave, and Paul creating a viewing area across Cawston Grange, and Ian, Andrew and Mark strimming the path edges.

The crew from HSBC worked on the section from The Bear pub, to the north side of the underpass.

Clearing the steps, strimming the path edge, litter picking, and creating seating areas with logs. All good stuff.

It says something when we have businesses such as HSBC, Land Rover and Tritax wanting to work with us.

Thanks to Steve and Marcus for dealing with this side of our operation.

Ian, Andrew and Mark did about 400 metres of strimming the path edge.

We can now start to see the wildflower-rich strip between the path edge and the scrub. I like it.

If we don’t trim the path edge, everything will flop into the path in the summer, and people start brushing up against nettles, brambles, and insects that bite and sting.

We broke for coffee and Oreo biscuits.

A welcome feast before pushing on.

It looks good. Loads of dappled sunlight getting in, decent views across the Warwickshire countryside, the access points made open and easy to use, and generally, space to walk two-abreast and have a conversation, if desired.

Whilst the boys were working their magic with the strimmers, Reece, Dave and Paul were trying to bring in the view that is Cawston Grange.

We have four major views where the trail is on embankment. Cawston Wood View, Potford Dam View, Lawford Heath View, and Cawston Grange View.

We checked and double-checked for nesting birds before cutting a window in the side of the path to bring the two together.

It’s currently a buttercup meadow, and bringing it in means better diversity for wildlife on the edge and better views for us.

We can expand the view and make more windows in the autumn.

So to summarise, we have Lawford Heath on the westerly side, and Cawston Grange on the easterly side.

Here are a couple of photos of the path after the work today.

It just feels nice and open and a decent place to be.

Dunchurch Bridleway

It was just Ian and me last Friday, and we had a difficult decision to make.

Do we go in an easterly direction and clear the bracken that is starting to go mad, or a westerly direction and start on the bit of the path that we should have done in March?

We went for the easterly option.

The bracken is awful if we let it dominate everything, so we pushed it back.

I’m not sure how we managed it, but we cleared about 600 metres, all the way to the picnic bench. This is where we got to from the other end when we were here last.

The good thing about what is growing is that it is all new shoots, so easy to strim back. We just need to keep on top of it.

I took it upon myself to clear the westerly side.

650 metres of lonely strimming and litter picking… If we left it for another two weeks, then it becomes a bit of a jungle.

Thank me with a buy-me-a-coffee…

Well, that’s about it for now. Exciting news about a coffee shop that has opened up along the whole length of the line (Rugby to Leamington) next week, and I will get back onto the wildflower spotting.

Thanks for reading if you got this far.

Until next time!

Paul

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One Half of a Pincer Movement

Posted on May 13, 2026 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

Oh my days… I really don’t know what has happened to the weather.

Last week, we felt like we were well on our way to warmer days as we nudged towards summer. This week, the temperature has crashed to about 2°C (35°F) in the mornings with frost on shed roofs. To add insult to injury, we had sudden downpours as the wind whipped up.

It was a bit brutal, to say the least.

However, eight combatants turned out as we continued with our push across no-man’s land.

Marcus, Steve, Matt, Dave, Martin, Andrew, Mark, and Paul continued with our charge southward.

It was all going swimmingly with blue skies and decent views. We were making huge progress, and I worried that we might finish the task a bit too early and have nothing to do.

We broke for coffee and a selection of old-fashioned boiled sweets that Matt had discovered somewhere in the north of England, or maybe even Scotland.

This was the point when the weather turned. We suddenly had horizontal rain and a howling wind. It was so savage that we actually thought about packing up and going home.

But of course, we soldiered on like the troopers that we are.

We got to the off-ramp that takes us across about 60 metres of what seems like waste ground. The path (Right of Way) from the other end is supposed to link up with this trail, and that connects Dunchurch Bridleway and Cawston Greenway. I think it’s about 400 metres.

It just requires footfall and the Council Department who look after the footpaths to keep it clear and open. I have requested that they make the 60 metres across the waste ground into an official Right of Way, but heard nothing back.

I tried!!

Myself and Andrew were some 600 metres south of where we started. Our strimmer batteries were getting really low, and the weather was turning nasty for the second time. We just managed to finish pushing the vegetation off the path before heading back.

This is a snapshot of what we have done. A path that can take two people side-by-side, a decent pollinator strip, and the scrub towards the sides.

When the weather cleared for the umpteenth time, I popped back and just took some photos of the whole connector path.

If people want to carry on beyond the off-ramp – good luck!!

It gets very boggy and wet, so I never venture down there.

And whilst I was in a little pocket of sunshine, I took some quick shots of the views.

And yes, it did start raining again shortly afterwards!!

The warehousing is there, and we cannot do anything about it, so we just have to work with it. We have loads of wildflowers starting to pop up in the pollinator strips, so it’s going to look lovely and be alive with bees and butterflies.

I’m just glad that we got to the end of this side, despite the weather throwing everything at us. On Friday, we are on the other side and will close the pincer movement, pushing the Dunchurch Bridleway up to the point where this path kinda lies in between and is a bit of a thorn in our side.

We got through almost all of our batteries today.

The wet grass puts a huge amount of load onto the strimmers, but all in all, a pretty good result.

Next week we are back at the underpass working southwards, with a bit of a helping hand – all will be revealed, so stay tuned.

Thank you if you managed to get this far.

Until next time!

Paul

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The Connecting Path

Posted on May 6, 2026 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

Warmer weather is rolling in. Mornings are not quite so chilly and by about 11:30 am, we are knocking on the door of late teens, or even low 20 C (70 F).

On a first look at the numbers today, it felt like everyone was abandoning me!!!

Was it something I said??

But then the hazy recollections of various people telling me that they are on holiday this week, or actually having to work for real money, slowly came through the early morning brain-fog.

A mere five of us were left to pick up where we left off last week. Andrew, Mark, Steve, Dave, and Paul.

That place being our most southerly picnic bench at Potford Dam.

Not a bad place to set up camp.

The mission was to get as far as we could southward.

We got to the bridge, which is the start of the connecting path that makes the whole network connect up the various communities.

The whole circuit is about 6 miles and the connecting bit is ringed in yellow.

But before we crossed over the bridge, coffee, biscuits, and a huge intake of the wonderful view was needed.

Beautiful hedges full of spring blossom and wildlife, and decent banter and general conversations that keep us all connected and laughing.

The task on the other side of the bridge is really just to keep the connector path open and allow people to walk two-abreast, and be able to see what is ahead.

If we just leave it, then we get all the vegetation flopping onto the narrow path, which means people get bitten or stung, and everyone has to walk single-file “Indian style”, which is not very condusive to having a conversation.

However, we still leave the wildflower-rich grassy strip to keep the pollinator highway on both sides of the path.

This is perfect. Just what we want from a bees and butterfly point of view, and aesthetically, it ticks all the boxes. It’s literally buzzing with life.

Amazingly, we got to the Sky Blue Bench. Exactly 400 metres from where we started. How we managed to get this far is a bit of a mystery, but we did and have set ourselves up for one last push next week.

The last photo shows the task ahead. About 600 metres before we get to the off-ramp that leads to Dunchurch Bridleway.

Lastly, we litter-picked the whole greenway on Monday.

Pretty pleased with the lack of litter.

Dunchurch Bridleway:

It feels like we are doing a pincer movement on the last bit of the path that connects this trail, and the Cawston path.

The easterly section is done. The westerly section is hopefully where we will be next time. However, everything is growing at a tremendous rate.

We broke for coffee, biscuits, the view, and the lovely wildflowers at half-time.

We have to keep an eye on the bracken though. Last year we left it too long and a family of bears moved in…

Joking aside though, what a time to be out doing this sort of thing, rather than listening to the news and stressing over the state of the world that we live in.

One thing is for certain, nature keeps doing her thing and everything else is just transient.

Thanks for being here if you got this far.

Until next time!

Paul

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Another Piece of the Jigsaw

Posted on April 29, 2026 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

A chilly start today soon gave way to about 16+ C (61 F), which is a fine temperature for working in.

Nine trigger-happy strimmers set off southwards, covering about 550 metres. Another epic distance.

Matt, Steve, Marcus, Dave, Andrew, Mark, David, Ian, and Paul set about defining the path edge and leaving the wildflower-rich strip for our pollinators.

We can see what we mean by the pollinator strip. The zone between the path and the scrub.

This is the hot zone for butterflies, bees, and a whole host of insect life.

I think the bugs will be happy, as will the humans, because they won’t get bitten.

We broke for coffee and an assortment of goodies, including some home-made spicy chocolate pecan delights, thanks to Matt’s wife, Helen.

Very tasty, indeed.

We cracked on with the path and snipped the lower shoots off some of the trees.

This was a Goat Willow and a Hawthorn, both trying very hard not to be a tree, instead, wanting to identify as a bush. I’m sorry, but a bit of correction was needed.

It just looks so much better when trees have clean trunks and the leaves are in the canopy.

We pushed on as the sky turned a deep blue and things warmed up.

Wow!! There are even some rare photos of me – proof indeed that this is not just some strange figment of my imagination…

We finished with decent views over the Warwickshire countryside. I guess this is Lawford Heath that we are looking across in the first three photos.

I just love the name, Heath. It’s such an old descriptive word to describe land that is uncultivated, swampy, and of poor quality. One can only imagine what sort of wilderness was out there before modern farming managed to tame the acres and turn it over to arable food production.

The bridge at the other end of the line (Leamington Spa) is now installed, and the road is open.

This is the Fosse Way, a road that originates from when the Romans conquered England and built this route (Exeter to Lincoln), and also built Watling Street (Dover – London – Chester), Ermine Street (London to York), Dere Street (York to Scotland), and Stane Street (London to Chichester).

But of course, we still ask – what have the Romans ever done for us…

It looks like a lot of work is needed to get the existing trail to blend with the bridge, and the skinny path that is the Offchurch Greenway needs footfall to get the width back to where it needs to be.

This is 11 miles away, but eventually, our 2.5-mile stretch will be part of the whole route from Rugby to Leamington Spa.

This is where our little piece of the jigsaw fits in.

Wildflowers Spotted:

  • Bird’s-eye Speedwell
  • Orange Rock Hair
  • Wood Avens

I’m not sure if the lichen is a plant or whatever??

Next one is on the Dunchurch Bridleway this Friday, and then we are pushing onward next week.

A quick reminder – a lot of men complain about having difficulty meeting other blokes and making friends… Find a purpose in life and get others to join you, just like what we are doing here. It really is as simple as that.

We are a group of 14 people with a wildly different spectrum of interests and stuff, but here we are meeting up every week and having a laugh – it is so good for mental health and all of that sort of stuff.

Until next time!

Paul

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