“One of the simplest pleasures for me since childhood,” writes Danny Howell, “Is a stroll through Temple’s Plantation, north of Home Farm, at Boreham, particularly in the autumn when there is a deep carpet of fallen beech leaves on the path from Big Gates to the Bourne.” (The path here was once known as Peter’s Walk, named after Peter Temple, of the Temple family who lived at Bishopstrow House – now Bishopstrow House Hotel).
Looking south, up Peter’s Walk, in Temple’s Plantation.
For many years (since at least 1947) local people
have referred to the woodland beyond the lower end
of Temple’s Plantation, as “Primrose Wood.”
Above and below: Two more photos showing the carpet of beech leaves on Peter’s Path in Temple’s Plantation.
Photographs taken by Danny Howell
on the afternoon of Thursday 29th September 2011.