Offas Dyke Day 6 Kington to Knighton

Offas Dyke

Day 6 pictures
Of course another night of rain, and I woke at 11.40 PM having slept well for all of 90 minutes, to realise I was hot.
The furnace had come on and my orthotics were cooking and downstairs. So on with the bathrobe and down stairs I went.
The stairs were steep and I realised the bathrobe covered very little if any of the bare essentials if someone had been ascending from below.
Thankfully I was on my own, and orthotics rescued, back to bed, minus bathrobe.
The morning however revealed clear skies and we set out with some sunshine.
The way out of Kington took us past a babbling brook, rather like Eve who had Monday-itis, she said.
The babbling brook was followed by a nice climb out of Kington, in fact a nasty piece of work really.
It lead to the local golf club where I misread the sign stating "Beware of Golfers" for "Beware of Gophers".
We certainly had to be aware, as they were playing across our way, badly and they were digging up the fairways.
Once on Bradnor Hill we rejoined the earthworks that form the Dyke, which pictures fail to capture very well. It is still quite impressive.
We then had very steep descent into Lower Harpton, a village of no note whatsoever.
Another short sharp ascent through Burfa Wood, then another to Granner Wood notable for being on the Dyke again.
We had morning tea on the edge of a paddock, near the dyke.
The paddock had three horses that kept galloping towards us, stopping short, coming closer, then rushing back from whence they came. Then repeating the charge/retreat process.

View from lunch

Having climbed, as is the way, we then lost all height gained, heading into a village, Dolley Green, which we never quite got to, as the track did a sudden sharp left turn and headed up another long hard hill.
Having laboured up this, we found ourselves sharing a field with animals of the bovine variety, so lunch was delayed until we could put a couple of gates between us and the aforesaid animals.
Having regained our height and walked pretty well through the morning, the afternoon was pretty easy with a slow ascent down to Knighton, through yet another golf course, this time thankfully, devoid of gophers.
Knighton has the Offas Dyke Centre, an obligatory stop for walkers where you can get badges T-shirts etc, which we duly did.

Dyke earthworks

Our B and B overlooks the River Teme, and there is a cascade close by-noisy. I hope the bugger doesn't keep me awake.