17/07/26 - Rail Trail - Tewkesbury to Pershore

Pevsner's PershoreThe second part of Jonathan Meades Travels with Pevsner details Pershore. A perfectly intact Georgian town.A Walk Midlands Rail Trail from WalkMidlands has been on the to-do list for a while. Time to knock this off, and investigate Toyah-town with eyes afresh.After a couple of city walks, it's good to be in the countryside again, even if this falls at the boring end of the walking scale. We have flat agricultural fields - burnt to a crisp, hard underfoot and with significant cracks in the soil ready to twist an unsuspecting ankle. The prize - Bredon Hill - is permanently in view - with only a couple of Northern Cotswold villages to break up the monotony.Ashchurch, providing the only geocache of the dayToday's vistaToo early for Kemerton's Crown Inn - a mooch around the church insteadI'm unsure if I have approached Bredon Hill from this direction before but as with the routes I have taken, it's a gentle climb. Shady woodland at the top provides a fine location for a…