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If you're visiting Hurst Green and don't fancy the 9 mile Tolkien Trail then maybe you'd prefer the walk around Sandrock which is about 3 miles instead. Popular with locals and relatively unknown to visitors it's a great route.
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so we're on the gravel track leading
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from shy Lane towards Sandrock at H
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green it's a lovely morning this is a
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great walk around in a big circle from
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the uh from the village from H green
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it's probably between two and 3 miles
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long so a lot of it
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is um gravel like this timeart road that
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we've just walked up and then we'll get
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to this Junction here and turn right and
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it becomes more of an unmade path that
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leads us down to the uh the
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river where the dogs can have a swim and
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you'll see why it's called Sandrock when
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we get down
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there so we've just turned right off the
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gravel track and now we're just on the
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the foot path that takes us down towards
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Sandrock
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so you can see it gets a bit muddy so if
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you're coming up here for a walk I'd
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suggest you put something on your feet
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that aren't your best Jimmy chews or
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your towny trainers cuz you're going to
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wreck them it's a bit better in the
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summer but uh even then because of all
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these trees it can stay dump and be a
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bit
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muddy if you've got dogs it's a great
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place for them great walk for them they
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can run off the lead you just got to be
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careful as we got fields on either side
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of the track and uh often there can be
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livestock in them but other than that
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it's uh a really good spot to have a a
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run round for
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them so we're just approaching the river
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now at Sandrock this is a quite a
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popular route for people that live
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locally but it's um it's less well known
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for people that are visiting the
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area most people that that come around
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here and walk generally do the Tolkien
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Trail which goes out the other side of
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the village and is much longer it's
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about 9 miles long um so it's really a
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full day of a job but if if you're up
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here and you want to shter walk then you
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know this is ideal it's generally pretty
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quiet you might get the odd person uh
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running the occasional cyclist or
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somebody on a horse but um more often
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than not it's um it's pretty
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quiet so here we are we just crossed
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the river we came from that direction up
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there that takes us back towards shy
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Lane and we'll see the river down there
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and you'll get an idea as to why it's
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called sand rock because of the the um
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the Sandstone that the river's carved
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its way through well I say River it's
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more like a a big
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stream really but it's a great place my
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dogs they love it it up here that's why
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they've gone charging off there's a bit
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of a a natural pool area down there
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let's just take a a look see if we can
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get a Clos look at the at the The Rock
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on the side of the river so you'll see
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it's all very um Sandstone is
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sandstone it can get quite flooded
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during the winter and as you can see
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it's um it's advisable to have something
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decent on your feet she going to get a
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squelchy so the dogs have gone in for
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the morning
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bath they'll all start barking at me to
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throw stones in for
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them but if you if you're up here with
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dogs and you enjoy water this is a great
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place great place for to go have a
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paddle go on in you go go on
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then go on get
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in can see how much the
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so now the dogs have had their bath
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we'll carry on along the foot path and
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this path will bring us out opposite the
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Village Hall in h
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grain so you may depending on which way
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you choose to do this walk you might
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want to park your car on the village
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hall and do it in the opposite direction
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to the way that that I've done it so
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you'll come down this path and go that
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way the way we've
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come but either way it's uh it's a great
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place so you can start up there and do
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the 3M Walkin
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reverse just remember to bring your dog
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if you've got
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one so this is
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Sandrock
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known to the locals but not often
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visited by people from outside the
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area
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come on this way come on
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dogs come
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up so there's the entrance to the walk
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just down that guinel there and those
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Gates that's the entrance to stonia
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college which uh is literally 5 minutes
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walk
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away there's a village we're just going
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to head down in this
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direction the old arms houses
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that were removed from up on the fell
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many years ago and uh reconstructed
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Stone by Stone in the in the village
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here it's a village
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hall just coming up on the left so if
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you're visiting this is where you can
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park your
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car so it's an ideal walk
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for
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Village we do um often have functions on
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there and it's available to hire for
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parties and uh and weddings and other
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activities depending on what you need to
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do and just going up on the left is the
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Bailey arms
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Pub just reopened after being closed
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for almost 3
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years the hazards of running a pub in a
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rural location I
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suppose so hopefully that'll uh be
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successful so you'll be able to go in
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there for a drink and something to eat
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when you visit the area they do have
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accommodation there but I don't know
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whether they'll be um making the rooms
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available so it's open for drinks and
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snacks and then if you head down that
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road there that's the Dane and that
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takes you in a big circle back around to
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uh the start of the Walk that we've just
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done
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so we're now heading down the
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dean there's the P behind us the
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baile so for us we're coming towards the
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end of our walk maybe about another half
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a mile or
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so oh and here we
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are this is is where our walk
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started at this Junction
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here so if you carry Straight
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on to the next Junction on your
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right and that takes you along the track
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where we started off turn through the
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gravel track
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eventually and we're
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on as you can
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see we're on shy
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Lane and you can probably just see the
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village in the distance so we
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want all the way
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around
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there and back up that
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hill which is why I'm out of
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breath there's the old school
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hall now you have it that's the sand
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rock Walk So hopefully you'll enjoy it
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