Racton Monument Ruins And Around

Captain_Slash

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Bikes
BMW 310GS Honda Wave 125 Honda MSX 125
Total distance 62 miles/100 km
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After Saturday nights thunderstorm and heavy rain I was expecting these back roads to be wet but they had dried up
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The London to Portsmouth electric train thundering downline
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The BMW has clocked up enough miles for its service this afternoon so that coupled with the fact I was expecting wet back roads made the MSX the choice for yesterdays trip
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http://www.hampshire-history.com/st-huberts-church-idsworth/
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This apparently is a 1000 year old church that I will walk to on another day, a couple who were walking back from it said it was locked up
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N50.88206 W000.92809
http://www.stanstedpark.co.uk/visitor-attractions/stansted-light-railway.html
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Riding along a road that was new to me I saw a lot of vehicles going into Stansted Park so thought I would too
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All proper railways must have a turntable
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One of the staff was happy to show me around the workshop
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Even Thomas The Tank Engine lives here
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That pheasant can probably read my and looks like its about to run off
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A nice plump one
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Now looking across at Racton ruins/monument that I saw last Wednesday, now to get there
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The MSX has to do some offroad now, either that or I have to walk there
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Easy going so far
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It gets narrower with a muddy section but the MSX gets through okay
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Finally I reach my goal
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Now to look around it
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N50.87981 W000.89779
http://www.westsussex.info/racton-ruins.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racton_Monument
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I ride on and don't have far to go to the main road
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Greenery
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These two ducks don't appear to like the water
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A friends house with a new porch on it
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Lots of logging taking place around here now
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There must be some sort of rally on today as lots of old cars pass through
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The MSX is brilliant for these back road trips
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Sunday evening meal of balsamic glazed chicken with homemade sage and onion stuffing, potatoes and cabbage
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Plus gravy of course.
Meals like this are what I am craving when in Thailand but sadly I don't have a kitchen to use there
 
Nice crisp pictures Colin, is this with the new camera ?
 
Yes Bob it is with the new camera, they were all taken on maximum size of 5184/3888 but I resized them to 2048/1536 to upload on here quicker, the same photos uploaded onto Facebook are not squashed down so much
 
Thanks for sharing that beautiful part of your world with us Colin.
A lot to like there.
The links you added were interesting too.
Hope that monument can be restored (only to be scarred by graffiti again I suppose).
 
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