Summer Time
Mar. 30th, 2009 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustYesterday's walk (for the record) was one we'd set out to do a week or so ago, but been rained off before we even arrived at our starting point. Yesterday was fine (though not quite as fine as the sky in the picture suggests - if the camera doesn't lie, it certainly exaggerates), and we left the car in the car park at Brancepeth Station, and headed back along the railway walk towards Durham until we reached Brandon. Then we turned across the road and down Scripton Lane to the river (past Tudhoe Lodge). We followed the Wear past Page Bank onto land belonging to Lowfields Farm, then turned uphill to have lunch at their farm shop. From here it was a short walk up to the railway and back to Brancepeth.
Yesterday we could have picnicked, but the farm shop makes it a handy walk for days when that isn't an inviting option; though the riverside path could become very muddy in wet weather.
Tudhoe Lodge is a gatehouse of the Brancepeth Estate, built by Lord Boyne in 1870 as a home for the estate gardener (according to the City Council's Conservation Appraisal). It was originally called 'East Lodge', but Scripton Lane was once a route to and from Tudhoe - and you can see where people using that route must have crossed the Wear, though not how! The arms on the gable end must be a version of those of the Russells of Brancepeth - certainly the goat is their crest. (No, I don't know why).
Yesterday we could have picnicked, but the farm shop makes it a handy walk for days when that isn't an inviting option; though the riverside path could become very muddy in wet weather.Tudhoe Lodge is a gatehouse of the Brancepeth Estate, built by Lord Boyne in 1870 as a home for the estate gardener (according to the City Council's Conservation Appraisal). It was originally called 'East Lodge', but Scripton Lane was once a route to and from Tudhoe - and you can see where people using that route must have crossed the Wear, though not how! The arms on the gable end must be a version of those of the Russells of Brancepeth - certainly the goat is their crest. (No, I don't know why).
