Devil's Pulpit

 The fourth short walk we did whilst on holiday in the Forest of Dean was to the Devil's Pulpit. I had really enjoyed this view on my walk along Offa's Dyke in August 2018, and wanted to take the girls there to see it, but thought perhaps it best to just make it a short walk rather than the 18 mile epic I did that day. Fortunately there is a way to see it without taking on a large chunk of the Offa's Dyke Path - there's a car park at Tidenham Chase, and it's only a mile or so from there.

The bulk of the walk from the car park at Tidenham Chase is fine but fairly unremarkable - a wooded section first, then across open fields for a while.

This path joins the Offa's Dyke Path very close to the Devil's Pulpit, so we only got to enjoy a very short section of that atmospheric ridge top ancient woodland which for me characterises Offa's Dyke (because I've only ever walked these southernmost sections).

The view from the Devil's Pulpit was incredible as always, so dramatic and evocative, and so easy to see how this landscape coined the term "picturesque".