{"id":10527,"date":"2022-01-24T07:56:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T06:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countryfile.com\/?p=107369"},"modified":"2022-01-24T08:12:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T07:12:41","slug":"walk-snipe-dales-and-hagworthingham-lincolnshire","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbccountryfile\/rss_feed\/walk-snipe-dales-and-hagworthingham-lincolnshire\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk: Snipe Dales and Hagworthingham, Lincolnshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Jane Keightley\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 24 January 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The beautiful valleys and rolling hills of Snipe Dales Country Park<\/a> offer wonderful views of the wider Lincolnshire Wolds, disproving the common perception that the county is flat. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The dales here are perhaps at their most magical in spring. Joining the resident robins<\/a> and blackbirds are a host of returning warblers, including chiffchaffs, willow warblers, whitethroats and blackcaps. Yellowhammers, skylarks, cuckoos<\/a> and buzzards add to the spring chorus. It is also a great place to see butterflies<\/a> and dragonflies<\/a> as the weather begins to warm.<\/p>\n

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Once regarded as summer visitors blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla)\u00a0are now seen in the UK all year round, include at Snipe Dales\/Credit: Nature Picture Library, Alamy\/Credit: Nature Picture Library, Alamy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

Snipe Dales and Hagworthingham walk<\/h2>\n

3.3 miles\/5.3km | 2 hours | moderate<\/em><\/p>\n

This walk of 3.3 miles takes in the Snipe Dales Country Park before heading off towards Hagworthingham village, passing pioneering Shire Farm, also a vineyard and glamping site. When you arrive in Hagworthingham, make the most of its lovely country pub, the George and Dragon<\/a>, or\u00a0try JJ\u2019s Caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Parking and toilet facilities are available at Snipe Dales, and there are numerous information boards to find out more about the local wildlife. Dogs are permitted on a short lead in the country park\u00a0but are not allowed in the nature reserve.<\/p>\n

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The Meridian Stone in the east of the park marks the Greenwich Meridian Line\/Credit: Robin Weaver, Alamy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

1. Pond and picnics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Start from the car park at Snipe Dales Country Park where there\u2019s a \u00a31 parking charge. With the toilet block on your left, go through the gate and walk downhill on the track to the ponds. Turn left on to a grassy track, passing picnic tables. Head to the right up a hill, following the green tree symbols on the posts. Just after the Butterfly Sanctuary board, go left into the nature reserve.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0<\/span>Village bound<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the footpath signpost, turn right to Hagworthingham and cross the footbridge. Walk uphill through trees to a gate at the top. Continue on a wide grassy track, passing the vineyard at Shire Farm, a biodynamic farm. It has a Chakra Path \u2013 a trail created to mirror the chakra system (a meditation of Indian origin focuses on seven energy points in the human body).<\/p>\n

Where the track swings to the left, carry on through a grassy field into Hagworthingham through two gates.<\/p>\n

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