Thursday 15th July - Woburn Elephant Walk

 This walk was 6.5 miles in length and led by Sharon Johnson - 8 walkers

We started off from Woburn village car park and walked along the High Street to Burnmoor Green. We past the cottages. then past Birchmoor Farm before almost arriving at Horsepool Lane. Here we turned off through the recently felled wood and across the fields before arriving at the memorial sign on Horsepool Lane.

Tony R, John D, Joan, Tony P, Beryl, Torunn, Sharon & Vivienne

We crossed the B5704 & entered the park at Crawley Lodge. We then followed to footpath to view the animals. Here we saw elephants & antelopes amongst others.

Sharon, Joan, John D, Vivienne, Torunn, Beryl & Tony P

We continued on past the Safari Park entrance and had a coffee stop sitting on some convenient logs.  We then climbed up to the estate road where saw many deer.

 

Stags by the road.

We followed the road for a while before coming to the prohibited notice where we followed the footpath to the Froxfield entrance. From there we crossed the main road & followed the footpath back past Park Farm to the car park.

Track walked in clockwise direction.