Christine's walking & birds blog

Bad news in the Beeches. The Park Lane and Pumpkin Hill car parks are to close, so there'll be no parking on the western side of the woods.

And in case you get any ideas about parking on the side of the road, they've heaped ugly banks of gravel up on the verges to stop you.

I'm suspicious because they've given several reasons for the closures - perhaps one too many, that one being litter. I've never seen litter in the Park Lane car park, and believe me, I notice litter! I have no objections to the car parking charges they are going to introduce at the weekend, but I object to being herded up near East Burnham Common with the zillions of dogs.