Shire Rack
Dorset/Wiltshire borderField Visit
Wednesday 6 June, - 10.00 for 10.30am
Location: Garston/Pribdean Wood car park, SU004195.
Turn north off the A354 Blandford-Salisbury road at the roundabout with the B3081. Drive down into Sixpenny Handley, turn first right on the edge of the village and then right again up into Garston Down and along to the (rather small) car park sited on the LH side of the road.
Here we will be joined by (as it were) AONB Group 1 and will walk along the public footpath to Shermel Gate – little more than a mile to the west. Here Group 1 will be collected by the mini-bus and where we will be joined by Group 2 for a walk back along the Rack to the Pribdean car park, setting off at 1.30.
Thus suggest we bring both a packed lunch for a sit-down along the westward walk to Shermel Gate and something for a sit-down tea break on our walk eastward back to the car park. This promises to be a most interesting day sharing, shiring, our findings with people from both sides of the border; a shire ‘reach’ racu [out] to both Dorset and Wiltshire which has been in place for more than a thousand years.
The Shire Rack was the setting for one of our very first DCB field meetings – our ‘findings’ here to prompt the selection of this as one of the two lengths walked with Oliver Rackham in 2010. Do join us!
Please note
The activities of our Research Group are organised informally, and by joining in any of our outdoor events you do so entirely at your own risk, and we accept no liability for those who participate. If you wish to join us you are reminded that you must rely on your own ability and experience to gauge the difficulty and severity of the activity and the route or terrain involved, and you will be responsible for your own safety at all times. Any decision to continue or discontinue any walk or activity at any point is entirely your own choice, and you are reminded that you should have appropriate clothing, rainwear and footwear, and carry sun protection, food and drink adequate for the weather and the duration of the walk or excursion.
