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A walk in the country

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Earlier today, with some family and friends, we took a walk from Bourton on the Hill to Longborough and back again, a round trip of just under 5 miles in the English Cotswolds. The walk was mainly through the Sezincote House Estate. Sezincote House was built in 1810 in an Indian style and was apparently the inspiration for the Brighton Pavillion. It did look pretty, and the whole estate was well cared for with some stunning mature trees, although I still have some reservations about these large country houses and the origins of the money that built them. There are connections with the East India company and I can imagine the exploitation of people and so on that helped amass the money that built the house. Anyway, I digress! The route we took is a small part of the ' Heart of England Way ' which is approximately 100 miles and links Cannock Chase in Staffordshire to Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire. One of the largest fields that we walked along had what I im