Wednesday 11/09/2024 - HUNGERFORD CIRCULAR - Leader: Dick D

Hungerford is a small and pretty town on the River Dun, the Kennet and Avon Canal and the A4 Bath Road. We
walk down the High Street and through open country (briefly entering the South West) to a picnic or pub lunch at
Froxfield. From there we return along the canal and marsh land and past the church to Hungerford, where pubs
and cafés are available, before catching the train back.

Briefing in Hungerford old town

Civic building in Hungerford

Modern Hungerford with drainage system to cope with climate change

 Nature trail: scabious, hops, mushroom

Froxfield – lunch stop

Somerset Hospital: founded for 20 clergy and 30 lay widows founded and endowed by Sarah Suchess Dowager of Somerset by her will 1695

Water meadows by River Dun

Leader reinforced danger 

Kennet canal

Lock on Kennet canal

 Approach back to Hungerford

Map readers

Photos: Ruth, Ann C, Sue E