Circular walk from Home

 What a glorious day it has been. This morning I proposed, and Mr S accepted to come with me up on to the Mendips.  We walked up to Model Farm, retracing in the opposite direction the route I had followed with my UA Geology group.

Model Farm has the most beautiful old orchard, with the trees groaning with fruit, and the air filling with the fragrance of sweet apples. I thought they would be all old cider apple trees, but a munch on a fallen apple confirmed that these were probably old varieties of eating apples.

In particular I wanted to show Mr S the little valley with a small stream which is very usual, running as it does over the Black Rock Limestone.  It is quite different with a bright green grassland, and tall narrow Ash trees, of very mixed ages. Further up, the stream was a little too deep to risk slipping in. A little further up there is a water pumping station which draws water from a natural spring at the fault line situated nearby.

Further up on our geology walk we came across Swallet holes when the streams went underground, that will be for another return walk, in the summer.

We retraced our steps and took the Tynings Lane which leads into Milton Lane down into Wookey Hole, back along Lime Kilm Lane, then back across Wells.  En route we stopped off at Myrtle Farm, where Lisa Lunnun has set up a new Farm shop, which I had read about in Wells Voice.  We bought a few of her garden grown eating apples....delicious!

This is the longest walk we have taken without car or bike, since moving. This is about my current maximum length walk without a rest.