Day 30 Part 2 - To Cheddar

(continued from part 1)

The lanes north of Glastonbury are untidy and unattractive. A notice outside what looked like a scrapyard advertised "Cabbage plants 3p each". When did you last see anything for threepence? Seeing no fields of cabbages, I even wondered if it was a euphemismistic advertisement for some other kind of shrub!

Compared with the cosy vales of Dorset and the South Somerset hills, the moors of drained peat marsh are rather plain (sorry). I crossed East Backwear, surprised that a settlement as small as Godney has its own church, and took to the hills again at Bleadney.

I was ready for a good lunch and at The Panborough Inn I got one. Two courses, whitebait and vegetable lasagne, accompanied by Cheddar Ales' "Gorge Best".

The road took me through Theale and Latcham to Wedmore, whose roadsigns proclaim its significance as the place where King Arthur made peace. I shall have to find out why, when and with whom.

Down through Cocklake and Clewer and onto Cheddar Moor. Grass for silage was being collected on the lower slopes of the hills. One vehicle scooped the grass up and blew it from a spout into a trailer towed by a tractor. It was fascinating teamwork.

I reached Simon and Lisa's very comfortable B&B on the outskirts of Cheddar not long after 5pm.