Photos from walk on 7th May from Aston Tirrold

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First the “Springline” walk, east from Aston Tirrold.

 

The waterditch, with the surviving bulrushes (Typha latifolia), Common bulrush, known in north America as as Broadleaf Cattail.

 

Typha latifolia is also sometimes known as great reedmace (mainly historical, but occasionally still in modern use), common cattail, cat-o’-nine-tails, cooper’s reed, and cumbungi. [I like the idea of cumbungi, Australians don’t.].

 

Heading back from Cholsey, towards Lollingdon Hill

 

Approaching Lollingdon Hill

 

Looking back to Cholsey

 

On top of the hill, looking towards Riddle Hill

 

Then a walk round Blewburton Hill. (see top picture)

 

From Blewburton Hill, looking north to Wittenham Clumps, with the manicured studland fields in the foreground

 

South side of the hill is the Walnut tree which we have admired on past walks (9th Jan 2025)

 

We were too hasty in judging this gravestone in the Aston Tirrold United Reform Church; misunderstanding the meaning of champion of Africa. Turns out he is “is regarded as a founder of the liberal school of South African historiography and as a forerunner of the radical school of historiography that emerged in the 1970s. He was also a critic of colonial rule and an early advocate of self-government for colonial territories in Africa and of what became known as development aid.” [wikipedia]

 

Got to have a bug, Pearly Green Lacewing (Chrysopa perla)

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