A Long Walk!

This morning I met karen and Taivas in the forest for an early morning walk. We decided to do Walk No8 from the book"Pub Walks in the New Forest" by Diana Smith. The walk is called A step back in time and was 4 miles long.
Well we arrived at Bank the starting point just after 8am,and after about 10 mins we were in the little Hamlet of Gritnam.We spent the next 50 mins trying to find the ford over the stream, finally a local pointed us on the right track and told us that he does this most days in the summer as the ford is long gone. We enjoyed the next hour walking along the banks of the Lymington River ,until we had passed the deer fields (Not a deer to be seen) and arrived at Queens Bower. here our instructions said turn left......a little difficult as the river was on our left, so we continued down to Bolderford bridge where the dogs played in the river. here we met some cyclists with a map and they showed us the cycle track to follow back to Bank. Another hour of steady walking and we finally arrived back at the car at noon
It was a wrm sunny morning and the scenery was beautiful we enjoyed our walk but it was more like 8 miles and the instructions were useless!