anywhere then a glorious grassy field with hills for as far as the eye can see is not a bad place to be!
eventually we spotted the painted way marker in the distance i.e. the other side of the field, directly opposite the path we came down! so we trundled around the rest of the edge of the field – to make sure we really knew it – and passed through the gate.
the new path led us through the woods and out into an opening near a main road. a large tree, split in two by something stood by the entrance. we discovered that it was the ‘oak at the gate 