Pete's Walks - Coombe Hill and Great Kimble (page 3 of 4)
There was a nice section of beech wood here, and then the path started to drop quite steeply downhill. At the bottom of the hill I went straight on at a path junction, and soon reached the pub in Lower Cadsden.
Ninn Wood
Ninn Wood
The path descending through Ninn Wood
I followed the short street from the pub to a minor road. A few yards to the left, a footpath started on the other side which soon entered a nature reserve, a scrubby hillside below Pulpit Hill. I turned left, now on a section of the Ridgeway National Trail which I followed slightly uphill. I crossed a bridleway and after a while came to another path junction (marked by a fingerpost by a gap in the hedge on my right) where I forked left and left the Ridgeway. This ran through an area of scrub and then crossed through a number of paddocks, using a lengthy sequence of kissing-gates in the electric fences. I then turned left on to a track which led downhill to reach the A4010 road in Great Kimble.
The path through the nature reserve at the foot of Pulpit Hill (right)
Looking ahead along the path across the paddocks
From the paddocks, looking towards The Cop, Bledlow
The bridleway down to Great Kimble
The bridleway down to Great Kimble
I turned right, crossing over as I passed the church and pub - I was now on part of the Aylesbury Ring, which I'd follow as far as the edge of Wendover. I then had to re-cross the road and took the minor road leading through Little Kimble. Just past a village sign indicating that I'd entered Ellesborough, a footpath went left. Beyond some gardens, it continued north-eastward through fields with views ahead to Ellesborough church and Beacon Hill (again) over to my right. As I continued onwards I could see the monument on Coombe Hill that I would be passing later on. The path continued through more fields or pastures to reach and reach a road in Butler's Cross (a settlement within the parish of Ellesborough).
Great Kimble
The road through Little Kimble
The footpath from Little Kimble (part of the Aylesbury Ring)
Ellesborough Church
Beacon Hill again, now seen from the north
Looking ahead towards the monument on Coombe Hill
Approaching a road in Butler's Cross