On a short walk around the new cemetery

It was a beautiful spring day and I took my exercise on a short walk around the new cemetery. I saw this scene from the boundary hedge that is only about a hundred yards from our house. It is the view looking up towards the head of the The Horns valley. The woodland on the distant right is where the name comes from and part of it is a designated ancient woodland. 

There is a former farm beyond these meadows, which has become a riding centre and the horses are provided with these sections of the grassland.  The stream which formed the valley is called the Lime Brook and it begins only about half a mile from this spot. Springs rise up from the valley floor as well as from the sides of the valley, at the junctions of the various different strata of limestone and Fuller's Earth, clays and brash. Our house overlooks the end of this valley, beyond which the Lime Brook joins the River Frome that runs down the Golden Valley and into Stroud.