This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.

Today’s photo displays a place in the Forest of Dean where a trail splits into two. The one forging ahead passes a parking area for visitors before it heads round and down to join an extensive family cycle trail through the trees. The track crossing the bridge to the left takes walkers over what was once an active railway line moving coal, iron, and stone from the forest to be distributed to the users of such materials. It then climbs a hill, giving some room to the water from a spring that can turn parts of it into a muddy stream after heavy rain. At the top of the track there’s a wider road, surfaced with quarry waste, that also eventually joins the family cycle trail as above. During the working week, this whole area is quiet, serving the needs of walkers and, sometimes, their dogs. At weekends, it can be relatively busy with groups of cyclists pitting their machines against the hills and bends crossing the forest. But, fortunately, nature is generally able to cope with these invasions.

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