Sunday walk..Burston

We decided to go for a nice walk, Sunday afternoon the perfect time for a stroll. We chose to go to Burston, as it is quiet and pretty. It is a place we discovered when doing the family genealogy and finding that the Stanyer family came from Burston, so glad that we found this lovely place.

This is the fishing pool and Duck pond combined, alongside it run Poolside cottages and a pretty church, not shown , called St Rufins. It was nice to read the visitors book and see that four people had visited the church to find their Burston connections , they came from Australia. 

A couple of the Ducks came to feed, as we took some bread with us, when one comes along they tell their friends and we end up with loads of birds to feed.

A canal boat moored up, this is the Trent and Mersey canal, on the right hand side over the hedge and in the field meanders the river Sow that then cuts through Stafford.

This is Burston Villa, or up at Big House as I say it, where the Fourdrinier family lived in the eighteenth centurey, the inventors of a printing press, a portrait of them hangs in the national gallery.

Takenfrom the top of the canal bridge, you climb up from the towpath and over a stile to complete the circular walk back to the car park, by St Rufins church and the pool.

Just because I love springtime and the way everything unpleats in the sunshine, this is a horsechestnut leaf just unfurling, with the flower stem in the centre, Just so pretty. So there we are walk complete, it takes about half an hour , longer if you linger! as i do .