アシュベリーでの 周辺の簡単なハイキングとウォーキング

Nice quiet section

water tap here

Turn into the small wood from main path and you can hike through beautiful high trees

There are couple of different paths through fields

Now changed ownership to be called The Baking Bee, much improved and open more regularly, good coffee, cake and menu, lovely inside.

Open all day and night. A very intriguing place. I sat for around half an hour one morning, had some breakfast and moved on. didn't see anybody else. found it very peaceful. unbelievable just how old it actually is.

Ashdown House (also known as Ashdown Park) is a 17th-century country house in the civil parish of Ashbury in the English county of Oxfordshire. Until 1974 the house was in the county of Berkshire, and the nearby village of Lambourn remains in that county. The house is now owned by the national trust, with the lower floors of house rented by The Who guitarist Pete Townsend. Entry to the house is by booked tour only, at 2pm, 3pm and 4pm Wednesdays and Saturdays 3 April - 26 October.

Alfred's Castle is a small Iron Age hill fort, situated behind Ashdown House in the civil parish of Ashbury in Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire). It lies 2–3 km south of the Ridgeway and is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. It has a large enclosure attached that shows as a cropmark. Excavation has shown this to be contemporary with the small enclosure, started in the 6th century BC. The hill fort was established within a series of late Bronze Age linear ditches and revealed much evidence for occupation within it. In the late 1st century, a Romano-British farmhouse was built within the abandoned prehistoric enclosure. King Alfred won a great victory against the Danes at the Battle of Ashdown, in AD 871. Being located just to the west of Ashdown House, Victorian antiquaries associated Alfred's Castle with the King's troop movements before the battle. The exact site of Alfred's battle has not yet been determined, however, so is a matter for debate. The most likely sites are near Compton and Aldworth in Berkshire. Excavations were carried out at Alfred's Castle from 1998 to 2000 by archaeologists from Oxford University. A final analysis was published in 2014.