This is the route we followed two months ago – see A Cound Round (it still doesn’t rhyme). It’s colder today, and though it’s bright and sunny, we could get a shower. Fingers crossed! The views from this slightly elevated land are, of course, more autumnal now.
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It’s not exactly circular, and it doesn’t rhyme either… A pleasant walk nevertheless, brightened by the local inhabitants dressed as scarecrows, by fungi and autumn fruits in the hedgerows and, as ever, good views of the Wrekin, which is a fine shape from this angle.
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We’re walking the quiet lanes around Cound, Harnage and Coundmoor, on this warm afternoon. The sky may be grey but there’s colour in the fields and hedgerows. The Wrekin is a prominent landmark, and quite a fine shape from this direction.
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It’s a slightly-extended version of a walk we did earlier in the year, and for the same reasons. There’s been a lot of rain in the last couple of days; now the sky’s mostly clear blue, and we need to make the most of it, but we’ll have to stay on hard roads and tracks unless we want to get seriously bogged down. It’s a very pleasant leg-stretch, and as the afternoon wears on, the sun gets noticeable lower, spotlighting the landscape and leaving deep shadows.
We left the car at Cound Guildhall, where there’s a charity box for parking and a charity bookshop too: St Peters Charity Bookshop
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It’s a beautiful day! The sunshine is bright and warm, and the deep blue sky is decorated with wispy cirrus clouds. The fields will still be muddy, so we’re keeping to quiet surfaced lanes near the village of Cound. There’s a donation box for parking by the Guildhall, and there’s a second-hand book shop too. It’s open, but there’s no-one there, just an honesty box – 50p for paperbacks, £1 for hardbacks. Wonderful!
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It’s hardly a major watercourse, nevertheless it has carved itself a very attractive shallow but steep-sided valley, ideal for an amble on this bright but hazy afternoon. Heading back, our path overlooks the valley, with more extensive views the other way. Am I alone in thinking the Wrekin resembles Mount Fuji from up here?
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