21 April 2018
28.56+2=30.56km /19 miles
10 people
A gallimaufry of ancient woodland
Interspersed with grass meadows
Rivers running red with oxide of iron
Viridian grass on the brown earth.
Bluebells and primroses in flower
Gave colour to the forest floor
Old hammer ponds shimmered
Between the trunks of ancient trees.
Forges once used the wood and water
Fashioning guns and ploughshares
From the locally produced iron ore
These forests now stand silently
In memory of an ancient industry
Once common among these forest groves.
