Day 2: Windsor - Windsor Great Park
Date of walk: 11 October 2008
View photos from the day here here.
The Great Park, part of a vast Norman hunting chase, is set in 2,020 hectares (5,000 acres) of the Surrey and Berkshire countryside stretching from Windsor Castle to the north and Ascot to the south.
With its varied landscape and sweeping deer lawns, woods, coverts and huge solitary ancient oaks, the park abounds in wildlife. The pastoral landscape offers the perfect location in which to join Beefy on his 8-mile walk.
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Online entry for Beefy's Great British Walk is now closed.For last available places on the walk call 0207 685 5133.
