A Walk to Nash

Path to Nash.  Steps down from Westerham Road.  2 June 2016.

This post is just a pile of iPhone shots from a walk that took me past the tiny village of Nash.  I had walked nearly all of this route in sections in the past, at different times as parts of different routes, and the section leading to Nash only once a few years ago.  There had been a lot of rain over the past two days which made the idea of going to look at woods and farmland sound really muddy, so I did this instead.

I took  a bus to the end of Keston Common and found a steep path  down from the main road.  I was immediately in a very moody tunnel of trees (shown above).

Path to Nash.  Down from Westerham Road.  2 June 2016.

A side view opened up showing a field of buttercups.

Path to Nash.  Down from Westerham Road.  2 June 2016.

But mostly I was walking between two very tall hedgerows.  It came out to a road at the bottom, and another path was available after a couple of hundred yards.  This ran between less tall hedgerows but it was still hemmed in, so it was good to be able to hop over a piece of missing barbed wire and get a wider view of the fields.

Path to Nash.  From Jackass Lane to Fortune Bank Farm.  2 June 2016.

Mostly it was like this.

Path to Nash.  From Jackass Lane to Fortune Bank Farm.  2 June 2016.

The recent rain had caused a lot of the flowering plants to lean over.

Path to Nash.  From Jackass Lane to Fortune Bank Farm.  2 June 2016.

The path took a right angle and ran along a more open section.  There's a rather pretty small Hawthorn in flower, and you can see in the distance the pylons that distribute power across the London Borough of Bromley.

Path to Nash.  From Jackass Lane to Fortune Bank Farm.  2 June 2016.

Then another right angle, and I was back to this. Someone must be taking regular care of this path, or it would soon be one solid impenetrable hedge.

Path to Nash.  From Jackass Lane to Fortune Bank Farm.  2 June 2016.

A LOT of the Cow Parsley that looks so pretty on this route had been bowed down by the rain and had to be brushed through.

Path to Nash.  From Jackass Lane to Fortune Bank Farm.  2 June 2016.

Resulting in wet legs and feet .. At this point I had emerged onto a farm track and saw signs of (modern) life; a delivery van went past me.

Fortune Bank Farm, Nash, 2 June 2016.

The path actually goes through the farmyard, which as you can see does business as riding stables.  This is as much of Nash as I saw, and there is actually not much more to see!  Then, another short road section.

Nash Lane, 2 June 2016.

The country roads are all narrow and have high hedges.  Soon I turned off onto another track which joined another path, one I had walked several times between Well Wood and Coney Hall.  Parts of it were strewn with petals, and though that was not specifically for me I still felt good.

Path from Well Wood to Coney Hall.  2 June 2016.

 I turned towards Coney Hall. 

Path from Well Wood to Coney Hall.  2 June 2016.

 Now houses were visible over the hedge.  This is Coney Hall.

View over fields to Coney Hall.  2 June 2016.

Though I was still very much in the countryside.  Past this field I emerged into a road, and stuck to roads for a while to get a closer view of an interesting house I had caught a glimpse of - you can just see it two photos back.

House on Harvest Bank Road, Coney Hall, 2 June 2016.

 Very interesting, part brutal and part deco, not at all like the 1930s mock Tudor things to the sides.

Hayes Common, 2 June 2016.

Then back to the woods for the last familiar section through Hayes Common.

Well, I enjoyed that!