Wednesday Walk - Gazeley to Moulton 🐎

We set off down this lovely shaded path that goes between two large horse studs. The whole of this area is renowned for its long tradition of husbandry practices, owing to Newmarket to the west. Newmarket has a famous race course and is home to the Godolphin Stables - that's some big-money Arab horse husbandry. There is a lot of money in horses, and in the UK, it is mostly here! We walked for a good 30 minutes along arable fields and the sunshine was just fantastic. It feels like summer has truly landed and that its going to be a good one :)

Diverting from the edges of the fields the path led right through a field of waist high green crop - no idea what it is. A well defined path it is and it had two strange piles of flint (see image below). Any idea why this is done? Maybe its an English version of Zen Rocks... The soil round here must be a bugger for ploughing because of this stuff.

As we started to enter Moulton we got to a classic countryside stile, with a door for a dog! How very British.

The stile led down a small hill to Church number 2 at Moulton. The war graves were quite prominent here and a Geocache was had! (see images below)

The village of Moulton is PRETTY. First of all we found a stream full of ducklings, which kept me busy quite a while. On the breeze we could also hear a football match. The houses/cottages all around are well spaced and some looked so OLD, with lots of thatched roofs. It really is a pleasant place, not one that wants some loud ass drone hovering around I suppose... With our tummies rumbling we checked out The Packhorse Inn. I'd been told that it was 'expensive and full of jockeys'. Turned out that day it was just expensive and there wasn't a diminutive jockey in sight. Maybe next time i'll meet Frankie Dettori in there... He seems like a fun chap. The chips were good, cooked in duck fat which is a first. After lunch we went to see the strange old bridge next door (see image above). It turns out it is over 500 years old and was built to facilitate trade between Cambridge and Bury St. Edmunds. I was informed that the river here used to burst its banks frequently in the old days of horse and cart and was quite perilous. It was a real lifeline back then.

After spending some time relaxing on the village green it was time to go back to Gazeley, which took about a hour. During the walk we met a local at the top of the hill and I asked if it was Ely Catherdral I could see in the distance (it was a real tiny grey speck, about 40 or so miles away at a guess). I was then informed 'ahhh yes, but of course, that is why the village ahead is called Gaze-Eley!' (Gazeley - get it?!). Well sometimes things just fall into place! I couldn't believe it was possible to see from this distance. Haha!

As I carry the drone most places I go, it wouldn't be right not to get it out and this was a quiet place just on from our meeting with the local, and incidentally the field we passed through before. I wanted to get some nice field fly overs and take some pictures of the public thoroughfare, for my stock photo collection. See the image below how smoothly the path cuts across the land. We really are privileged to have these public rights of way through through land in the UK. Thank you for the Public Rights of Way Act. What do you think of the drone shot below?

It's nice to share walks and hikes with everyone out there. In future I'll try and get a big Wednesday walk in that has more drone in it 😃

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