Monday, July 8, 2013

On Dover's Hill

We spent the next two days and nights parked on Dover's Hill, another National Trust Property. Dover's Hill is on a long high ridge in the eastern Cotswolds, with stupendous views, the whole northern 180 degrees, just  up from Chipping Campden, ten miles from Stratford-upon-Avon. Very popular locally for walking, dog-walking, appreciating the views, watching the sheep, etc.
Yes, the Trust does natural sites as well as
homes and gardens



















Looking about; you can see the mountains to the west...













If you know where to look














Lying down in green pastures














Sitting down in green pastures; actually this is a familiar
sight in any public park or garden, particularly on a Sunday












Dover's Hill was for aeons the site of the Cotswold Oympicks,
regional games and contests, recently revived, similar to the
Highland Games; shin-kicking one of the favorite events;
along with the hangings, beheadings, and drawings and
quarterings, these were brutal times...


















Dover's Hill is on the Cotswold Way, one of
the major walks, and we enjoyed a few short
hikes out in the countryside and down the
hill to





















Chipping Campden

2 comments:

Tawana said...

Are there chiggers in England? I was looking at that tall grass and thinking that in Arkansas you would not want to walk there without lots of Deet sprayed on your body!

Mark said...

Nothing biting as yet (although we have read there are midges or somesuch; there are ticks and lyme disease, so one wants to be careful