Radford Woods

Stepping Stones to Nature put on their facebook feed that there were bluebells out in Radford Wood.  I had recently seen that these woods had been designated as a local nature reserve so decided it was a good time to visit.

We parked in White Lady Road and the entrance to the nature reserve was easy to find.  Friends of Radford Wood have made a Fairy Trail to entertain children and we found the first board for this.  For details see  http://www.radfordwoods.co.uk/.  We planned to follow the Erme-Plym Trail until Radford House, but there were no signs and we followed the path until we came to the end of the wood and then made our way up the hill and ended up coming down to the bottom path again.  From the map it looked as if we had to take a path through houses but we could not see where we should go.

There were bluebells out in the wood, but not enough to make a carpet of blue, it was more like a blue haze.  No doubt there will be a better show in a few weeks time.

Wild Garlic

At times the paths were good, with some board walks,  although in other places it was rather wet and rough.  From the Friends of Radford Woods website I learnt that Radford Woods consists of Buddle Woods, Jennyscombe Wood, Barn Wood, Brixtonhard Plantation and Basinghall Plantation.  As far as we could tell we only walked in Buddle Wood.  It would have been good if there was clear signage so we could explore all parts of the Wood.