Just a few weeks after I'd first visited Whitesprings I went back there with my grandson. There's nothing that is quite so exciting for an eleven year old as an old ruin ... and I'm talking about the old farmhouse, not me.
The first thing Benjamin had to do was squeeze through the squeezer stile ...
Benjamin's a bit of a photographer like me ...
After following the clear cut paths/trails we tackled some rougher stuff which brought us to a gate leading onto the moorland known as Big Bumper Piece ...
We didn't go onto the moorland though. We stayed in the woodland and visited the pond where I'd seen the frogspawn ...
Benjamin negotiated a dangerous woodland torrent ...
Then we reached Whitesprings ...
On the way back, on this short walk, we passed a redundant old squeezer stile ...
We finished at the entrance to Whitesprings Plantation. As you can see Benjamin is rather shy ... like me ...
This walk was followed on the 27th March 2011 [and I have also added in the 14 mile walk I undertook on the 25th March 2011]
Length of walk ~ 1.77 miles *
Total mileage walked so far in 2011 ~ 90.49 miles
Total mileage between the 1st September 2009 and the 21st March 2011 ~ 618.54 miles
20 of 2011 [which means in 2011 I was averaging just 4.52 miles a walk. This from the man who had once walked 56 miles in 24 hours ...]
* distance calculated on Ordnance Survey's Getamap
