It's been a few months since I walked over Cranborne way, and I couldn't have chosen a better day for my return. Weather wise, it was my favourite type of winters day; the sky was clear, but for well spaced blobs of candy-floss cloud, which allowed the sun to show off it's growing strength, and the air was suitably chill, chill to the point where you could really feel it going down. Lovely. I approached Martin Down from the hamlet of Martin, I love the view or the chalk grassland as it rises up from this direction. Reaching the top of Martin Down's rough grassland, I could see the world of the Chase laid out before me, it's a splendid tapestry of mixed farmland with broad hedge lines, chalk downland and pockets of woodland. And it feels timeless. Criss crossed with rights of way, it's a landscape of boundless walking opportunities, and always the possibility of the surprising.
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