Wardour Castle

We walked through muddy woods to Wardour Castle, a ruined 14th Century castle a few miles away from the cottage.

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The castle and grounds were dog friendly, and reasonably interesting (though I don’t think Barney was that interested).

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We had our lunch in the grotto as it was a bit drier there:

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We then walked home via a different route.

Wednesday

Barney and I went for a long walk from the cottage today. A nice mixture of paths, almost all of them fairly free of mud.

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Part of the walk was through an industrial estate on the outskirts of Shaftesbury (not so interesting), we also went past a new ‘solar field’ that was being constructed.

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We found a total of 21 geocaches today, this one being the most interesting:

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The log book is in the black plastic tube in one of the feet.

This was the daftest sign we passed, the path in question was very steep and only a few feet wide!

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A total of 12.6 miles, and Barney is now very worn out.

Meanwhile the ladies visited the Magna Carta at Salisbury Cathedral.