Checked the weather forecast today and it said fine until 2pm this afternoon, so decided to explore Denham Country Park. I’d never been there before and knew very little about it except for what is available on the web site. It is a sister park to Black Park which we went to last week for a rather nice afternoon out (though it was packed).
First of all was finding it – Google thinks it is on the A412 (which it isn’t at all) but it is on the mini roundabout just before you get on the A40 to London and the turn off for the Buckinghamshire Golf Club.
An empty car park awaited at 10am (though still cost £2.50 – thanks Bucks CC) and we went out and explored. After a brief distraction with some excellent climbing trees, we went across a field / meadow which R & J renamed as slug field and was very boggy and marshy. We soon ended up at the Grand Union Canal which we wandered along for a short while again, past Denham Deep Lock and then over a bridge to a couple of beautiful lakes with superb scenery…. the perfect location to test out my marginally upgraded camera (out with the Tamron lens in with the Canon).
I remembered to take some bread along and at the River Colne we fed a Moor Hen and Coot and then at the lake we fed some swans / cygnets. The most popular part of the day though was playing pooh sticks – great fun.
I also discovered that there is a quick way from our house to the Canal down Denham Lane, a quick right then left into Denham Village Road you can quickly tie up with a bridlepath and cycle down to the Canal safely. So I’m now looking at my next little excursion on the bike as down to there then see how far into London you can get on the canal tow path.
