Chatwall and Enchmarsh…

…and Hoar Edge, from Cardington. A fine, sunny Easter Sunday – can we avoid the crowds? It’s not difficult in this part of the world. The car park at Cardington might be full? It wasn’t – space for several more. We’ve walked along the lane on Yell Bank several times; today we’re walking part of the parallel ridge just a few hundred yards to the west – Hoar Edge, on a pleasantly walkable rough track.
A narrow neck of land joins the two ridges – it forms the watershed (where there is, literally, a shed – and a barn) between two local brooks – Bullhill Brook and the headwaters of Cound Brook. They join at Cound and enter the Severn very soon after. Just yards further south, beyond Enchmarsh, water flows southwards to join (eventually) the Onny and then the Teme – which will enter the Severn just south of Worcester. I think that’s fascinating; I may be in a small minority…
…and I may be alone in thinking Chatwall and Enchmarsh sound like the co-authors of a particularly dull text book.