3 men on a walk 2015: Around Mayfield

An 8.5 mile walk around Mayfield

After last weeks deafening marathon we needed some peace and tranquillity and so headed out into one of the pretty villages in the Weald. Ivan couldn't make it so Trevor and I set foot around 10-00 parking up at the car park in the village center.

The weather forecast was warm and humid but with high cloud and just a small chance of a shower around the middle of the day. As it happened it was a great walk day with the sun burning through occasionally and a breeze that kept the humidity down.

We made up this walk from several sections we have walked previously but on all other occasions it had been wet and the ground here seems to hold water like a sponge and we had slipped and slid around the route. Today it was mostly baked hard by the summer sun but even now in places it was boggy. This area is criss-crossed by streams and so the terrain is very much up & down with small bridges at every stream. Still it is very pretty countryside and this turned out to be a lovely walk.

Reaching the edge of Mayfield on the return we had the decision about which pub to aim for but as the route took us past the Rose & Crown and it looked so levelly and inviting in the sunshine we were just drawn into it as if by magnetism! And it was only half-a-mile from the car....