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26th July 2019 finds three intrepid souls (aaaah, souls!) following Andrew Swift's 'Seven Country Miles' round trip from/to Norton St Philip by way of Hinton Charterhouse, Hassage and ... Tucker's Grave. The title pictues show two shady characters awaiting the off in the George car park and three early images ... an as yet unidentified crop, a magnificent lime and one of many bleeding (also to be investigated) larches in the region of Norwood Wood

That unidentified crop again, probably in a Norwood Farm field close to Norton St Philip

Heading off through the mysterious crop field to Hinton Charterhouse

This is the mysterious crop in close-up; this patch still in flower

Waiting for the D2? No, waiting for us stragglers following the first pint of the walk at the Rose & Crown, Hinton Charterhouse.

Heading off from Hinton Charterhouse towards Cleaves Wood, we pass rolled straw in a Hinton Farm field

More straw, presumably winter barley straw, along the byway

Convolvulus arvensis and barley

And now just barley with some kind of oat grass in the foreground

Climbing now towards Baggeridge Farm; Wellow lies to the west with Combe Hay over the hill

A close-up of that unnamed (by Ordnance Survey) hill with Combe Hay beyond

Now looking south towards Hassage and, eventually, Frome and the western end of Salisbury Plain

Large patch of white convolvulus arvensis in the verge close to Baggeridge Farm

Baggeridge Farm barn, converted to a private (or holiday?) dwelling

Beyond Baggeridge Farm we find a convolvulus arvensis with magenta flowers

Looks like we've caught the western escarpment of Salisbury Plain in the far distance; oxeye daisies in the foreground

More barley beyond Baggeridge Farm

Contemplating Cornish pasties at Tucker's Grave

Blimey, they're really anxious to get their teeth into those pasties

Barley and the view south towards Hassage and Faulkland

Wondering now about the 'crop circles' in the barley. Caused by the weather? Animals? Human activity? Aliens? Quite rightly, the consensus was that they were most likely the result of alien activity.