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    Here's an account of our walk on Monday, to make the non-walkers feel jealous (maybe): In spite of predicted temperatures of over 30C, eight brave souls assembled at Puttenham Common top car park at 0945, where the breeze and the slightly earlier start made for optimism.  A shorter walk (4 miles) had been selected because of the impending heat, and this proved a wise choice.  North along the east side of the common was all under trees, from there past the Lutyens-designed Lascombe and down a quiet lane into and through Puttenham village, meeting several groups of Scouts-with-maps doing Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award hikes.  Passing the imposing gates of Puttenham Priory, we left the road, heading south, passing a lynchet, the remains of a mediaeval field system.  With the temperature rising we made a second refreshment stop in the shade, and came eventually to Rodsall Manor, mentioned in the Domesday Book, but the current house only 450 years old. A sho...