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            An afternoon visit to Coopers Hill & Ampthill Park on %/3/2025 It was a lovely sunny mild afternoon. I had just washed the Golf at Flitwick and arriving at the Hub Cafe was bursting for a wee. Then I crossed over to Coopers Hill approaching through a new route between Beech & Holly Trees. The heathland was very quiet but the gorse was in flower.
From there crossed back to the park and did the usual route in a clockwise fashion. Gaining the ridge eventually I sat and postulated a poem.

On Ampthill Edge

Chill wind eddies by, the sun fades in the sky
A dark blue horizon far away
Close to, great aged oaks
A Raven cronks high in a giant Lime bedecked in Mistletoe.

Recovering from that steep climb
I sit considering far away in time and space, the light of years,
the fears beyond, weary but content.

Spread before me history extends
A clay vale now scarred
That multitude of chimneys gone
That land of bricks vanished.

Now just a solitary tower ascends
Waste burnt, dust and vapours
Blown by heavenly dictat
From all that human waste rejected.

Beyond Bunyan's fair city straddling a great unseen flow
now a land of sheds, a tower of Babel, a legacy of Empire.

Closer by just centuries ago on the Duke's land a great mansion
framed now by this lung of green stood to control and entertain.

As I catch my breath, consuming all before me, my poor eyes take
a faded view,  here I am alive
breathing and wondering.

5/3/2025
C 4pm sat on a bench in Ampthill Park looking to the horizon
   

Taken on: March 5, 2025

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Ampthill Park

Lumix FZ1000

Cooper's Hill NR « less

Sets appears in: • Ampthill Park • Ampthill, Flitwick, Flitwick Wood & Flitton Moors

Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ1000, f/4.0, 1/640 sec, 9.1mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Panasonic DMC-FZ1000
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ISO:	400
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Flash:	Off, Did not fire
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