Latchmoor Bottom

Latchmoor Brook runs clear and cold through the bottom, the ground beyond its Northern bank expansive mire before rising to Hampton Ridge and the last high ground of the forest.  The wet heathland in these parts is open and exposed, but for a few isolated, predominantly, Holly clumps, affording only minimal shelter. Clumps in which on past forays evidence of former Gypsy camps have been identified, camps from a period when roaming Gypsy families were synonymous with the forest, and their benders and vardo's a common sight. A group of deer watch are slow and laboured progress, thwarted in seemed at every turn, they stayed put, secure in their knowledge of the terrain and the safety that afforded them.