Driving south for an old friend’s wedding gave me a chance to grab myself a few little Marilyns. This was the first. After a long and very tedious drive from Sheffield I got parked up in Coldharbour mid-afternoon. The place is awash with posters. “Don’t Drill Leith Hill” – it seems there are folk wanting to do some exploratory drilling to look for oil or gas deposits and a lot of locals and others very keen to stop them. I planned short walk heading first to the trig point in the Abinger Forest, then to the trig point in Wolvens Lane and then on to the top of the hill. The first of these targets was easily reached. Then I had a navigational screw-up. I took a wrong turn in the woods near Collickmoor farm and ended up properly lost. I made the usual dubious decision in forestry, Well, I’ll just keep going this way till I come to a road, or a helpful signpost, or a building I can identify and on I went. (THis strategy is almost never a great idea.) Eventually I found myself somewhere I recognised. Er. Coldharbour. So start again. Off I went up through the woods pasty Upper Meriden Cottage to Wolvens Lane where I easily found the trig point. Then back a bit and right down a hill leading to Home Farm. Then down through the woods past Warren Farm to a crossroads where a path leads steeply off right to the toip of the hill. I met about 20 people around here which is about 19 more than I had met on the whole walk up to the point, mostly cyclists struggling up and racing down.
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