We went away for a few days last week. We had mixed weather so we tried to make the most of the sunny days.
One day we made a visit to Croft Castle near Leominster. As Spencer was with us, we chose to take the walk up to the Iron Age hill fort at Croft Ambrey. It was a lovely walk through different landscapes.......fields with cows and their calves, woodland and rough grassland with hundreds of foxgloves.
I've never seen foxgloves growing wild in these numbers before....
There were fantastic 360 degree views from the hill fort....
My favourite part, however, was at the beginning of the walk. The path took us through a field with huge ancient trees.....
We believed these old trees were Holm Oaks like the 600 year old tree we had seen at Westbury Court Gardens......
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But apparently they are 400 year old Spanish Chestnut Trees.
Some of these giant trees were still alive......
........and some were long dead........
They were magnificent......
Reaching up into the sky with their huge arm-like branches....
They reminded me of 'Treebeard' and the 'Ents' from the Lord of the Rings book and film, The Two Towers. The tree creatures that help fight Saruman.
We really enjoyed our visit and we will return one day to visit the castle itself and the gardens.
We're off to do a car boot sale tomorrow......it will be Spencer's first one......he's hoping we will find him a nice Sunday Hat to wear!
See you tomorrow.
Maggie xx
