Phil and Jo Fletcher-Lee

North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Walks at the moment: We are trying to finish the Birketts, just 30 left out of 541 including Pillar Rock as the finale. Finished the Wainwrights in 2013, last one Slight Side. We enjoy walking in the Yorkshire dales, having done most of the 2,000ers in the old boundaries that was once North Riding and interested in the Nuttalls - keep adding the lists. Welsh 3,000 also lots of good stuff to do in Scotland - plenty of summits2do MAIN BLOG PICTURES PLEASE CLICK TO ENLARGE ALSO CLICK OLDER BLOGS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE FOR PREVIOUS YEARLY POSTINGS

Thursday, 30 July 2015

SOUTH DOWNS WAY, EXTON TO EAST MEON

Continuing our half a leg and return on each section today we walked from Exton to East Meaon, 12 miles. We parked-up and dashed across the A32 and headed for a small path that took us over the River Meon, a lovely chalk stream before plunging into a narrow woodland shaw. Today was absolutely perfect and the butterflies in abundance, we passed around Old Winchester Hill, deciding to pick it up on the way back. Beautiful countryside, sloping meadows, cornfields, enormous hedges with verdant wildflower beds beneath all being harvested by flotillas of butterflies. Passed the idyllic Meon Fishery and saw the spire of East Meon Church which became our lunch stop at the Ye Olde George Inn, great pub! Headed back the same route pulling in the top of Old Winchester Hill.
 
Chalk Stream, Exton - "The Incomplete Angler"

 The pastoral village of East Meon



Old Winchester Hill
 
 
 
 
 
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