Home page > Walks photos <		southcotswoldramblers.org.uk Charfield and Tortworth 21 July 2007 Two echos from history today, one about 80 years ago, and the other probably over 1,000 years! ..
		In a layby near Tortworth we squeeze our cars between tractors and lorries for the start of Tim's walk .
		Our first port of call is the bridge at Charfield railway station where Tim tells us about the 1928 Charfield railway disaster .
		Before we move off passing this old mill .
		With a fast moving stream .
		Our route taking us mainly along roads due to flooded fields .
		Something wrong with this sign? .
		Coffee is taken by a very old tree .
		With a new sign to prove it .
		And an old sign to press home the fact .
		Then we head off .
		Past an old church .
		Wonder what they are laughing at! .
		Our lunch break - yes, it's a pub but Bernard has taken the pledge .
		We have some spectators watching use eat while they feed their noisy family .
		Then we gather outside .
For Tim to start the afternoon proceedings .
Which now take us across fields .
Still a little bit soggy .
	Lots of nuts about this year .
	And fields of flowers .
	Edging round more water .
	Till we reach this church .
	With a slightly run down graveyard where Tim points out .
	A memorial to the Charfield rail disaster victims, itself becoming overgrown with weeds .
	An anathema to Ramblers, so we proceed to tidy it up .
	And now it looks much better .
	With a certain smug satisfaction we head off across the fields .
	To be faced by this frightening bunch .
	Who relieve the boredom of a Saturday afternoon by galloping round us .
	Before we leave their field, Mike showing how to get through this waterlogged gate .
	And Bernard following in his wake .
	While the rest of us wait patiently - perhaps smiling at the thought of one of them falling in .
	Then its back up Charfield Hill to the cars .
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	Photos and comments by Richard
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