Windsor Great Park 6 September 2015

I think there will be many visits back to this park - it's huge, there's lots to see and it's about a 10 minute drive from home.  Home is a small bedsit room with a shared kitchen and bathroom and is perfectly adequate most of the time, but on weekends, specially when the sun is shining, I have to get out and about. This was another sunny Sunday and I couldn't wait to get out there.  I parked at the Cranbourne Gate and headed in.

 

The 9000 acres are a diverse landscape of woodland, grassland , landscaped gardens, and formal avenues, something for every mood.  There's even a village with a post office and a village shop. There's a cricket pitch and a private golf course. A manmade lake and a duck pond. The shop owner was doing a roaring trade in ice creams and maps of the park that day. Visitors walk, run, cycle, ride horses, drive horse carriages.

I headed up towards the Jubilee Statue - a bronze sculpture of the Queen commissioned to commemorate her Golden Jubilee.

 

Somewhere to sit and contemplate life ...