Pete's Walks- Buckland Common and Chartridge (page 2 of 5)
After about a quarter of a mile, I turned left off the road and followed a footpath through two empty pastures to reach Lowndes Wood. The path continued eastwards through the wood, before slowly curving right and heading south (I'm not sure if this is still Lowndes Wood or another unnamed wood). After half a mile or so, there was a pasture on the right beyond the edge of the wood.
The path to Lowndes Wood
The path to Lowndes Wood
Lowndes Wood
Lowndes Wood
Same path, now in an unnamed wood
Same path, now in an unnamed wood
Bridleway, continuing in same direction as the previous path
Once I had this pasture on my right, I then turned left at the next path junction which was a few hundred yards further on(this was further on than I remembered, much closer to Bellows Wood). This short path took me to the other side of the wood, where it joined a bridleway that continued straight ahead (eastwards again), with the wood and then a hedge of mature trees on my left, with a recently trimmed hedge on my right beyond which pastures sloped down into a valley. The bridleway eventually turned left, close to Cogdells Farm, and joined a street that led to the main road that runs through the village of Chartridge. I turned right, and followed the road through the village for almost three quarters of a mile. It had been a grey morning so far, but now the skies were brightening up nicely.
The path going east through the wood
Looking ahead along the course of the bridleway to Cogdells Farm
The lane from Cogdells Farm into Chartridge
The road through Chartridge
I then turned left into Old Sax Lane, which after a few yards became a track dropping quite steeply downhill, with a caravan park behind the hedge on my right. I crossed a valley bottom between hedges and climbed the opposite slope beside a hedge on my left through a field of rough grass. Near the top of the hill the path switched to the left of the hedgerow, before reaching a minor road by Tile's Farm.
The bridleway (Old Sax Lane) going northeast from Chartridge
The bridleway continuing northeast across the valley
The bridleway continuing northeast up the opposite side of the valley
Looking northwest from just before Tile's Farm
Approaching Tile's Farm