Yoxall Lodge Bluebell Woods

So on Saturday 29th April 2017 i went on a day trip with my grandparents to Blue bell woods it was not the place i planned to visit as i stated in my last blog and it is later than i expected to write it. Anyway todays blog is going to be about my visit to bluebell woods.

Start of the walk:

After parking the car it is a short walk to the start of the pathway in which the walk through bluebell woods takes place. At the start there is a pop up tent used as a cafe in which you buy tickets which enables you to enter the woods. The large tree in the pictures above signifies the start of the walk. The tree in the picture is very unique it is the only one on the site and it is pretty old. You can see the sheer scale of this beautiful yet old tree which i hope is still there in years to come for other people to admire.

Middle of the walk:

Through out the walk you see many bluebells like these in the photos, you may see the odd white bluebell dotted throughout the thousands of bluebells that are here. (There are too many bluebells to count).  There are also hawthorn trees and oak trees etc. On the walk you learn facts such as in mythology the hawthorn is considered bad as if brought into the house there will be death within the house. other trees in the woods made boats and various other things and many of them were good for medicine/ healing wounds. Many of you might not know but these bluebells at Yoxall are rare as they are the english bluebells, the english bluebells are rare because of the Spanish bluebells are killing  of our native bluebell so many you see today in people's garden or on the road side or in woods near your house there is a high possibility that they are Spanish and not the beautiful, stunning english bluebells. On the walk you can choose a pathway that leads to two local well looked after dogs graves these dogs were part of a local house hold that lived near the site and they were from a fairly rich family. I cant exactly remember the legend of the dogs or their names but it is a must see while you are there their legend is written on their grave stones. You also walk past a stream which on the other side of it has a walled garden.

Unfortunately i don't have any photos of the stream or the dogs grave as my phone died and we didn't walk the pathway where the dogs grave is.

The end of the walk:

At the end of the walk you walk past a farm and past the pop up tent cafe and there are bundles of straw ( or as the americans would say Hay bales) you can sit on and have a cup of tea and a piece of cake.

A little story from the day:

So before our walk had started we was waiting for my nan and there were some little kids (toddlers) and they were running around. I am pretty sure they weren’t american or they didn’t seem to have anything american about them but as they were running one of them said lets go to the Hay bales it was the most typically american thing you could think of but it was said in the most english way but i couldn't tell what english accent it was.