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Shipley - In Search Of Snowdrops
w/e 11 February 2018
All of this week's pictures were
taken with a Kodak DX6490
We took this two mile walk in Shipley Country Park
just a couple of days into February and wondered if it was a
little early in the year to see snowdrops. You can follow our
route from The Field on Mapometer.com here.
We followed Dog Kennel Lane up Shipley Hill as far as the Suffragette
Wall on Lodge Walk. The wall was built in the early 1900s to
protect the Miller-Mundy estate from the suffrage movement. Snowdrops
usually grow in the distance to the right of Lodge Walk but as
none were visible from here we turned left to pass in front and
to the side of Nottingham Lodge.
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Passing through a squeeze stile we continued up to the top of
the hill along a well used footpath.
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We picked up the track through the wood and spotted some patches
of white among the trees but these were not snowdrops but turned
out to be piles of sawdust.
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One patch however did indeed turn out to be snowdrops.
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Passing through a clearing in the wood and the site of the old
Hall we re-entered the wood to find many more flowers filling
the spaces between the trees.
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We dropped down onto Shipley Lane and turned right where we found
the bank down from the lane opposite Gardens House also covered
with snowdrops.
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Our search had not been in vain.
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Continuing along Shipley Lane we passed Derby Lodge which is
just beyond the wall on the right.
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The Coach Road by the side of the Lodge leads up to Lodge Walk
where no doubt there would have been many more snowdrops but
we continued down Shipley Lane to Osborne's Pond.
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Turning right at Osborne's Pond we picked up the Nutbrook Trail
to return to The Field to conclude the walk.
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