Pete's Walks- Bledlow and Radnage (page 3 of 4)
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As I continued across a sequence of meadows and paddocks to reach Radnage Church, a Buzzard circled around overhead - from its calls I think it was a young one. I walked through the churchyard, passing the church on my right (it is unusual in having a central tower rather than one at an end). I then crossed a lane and continued across a long meadow or pasture to reach another lane.
The path continuing towards Radnage church (just visible in the trees on the right)
Radnage church
The path across the meadow, across the lane from Radnage church
I turned right along the lane, leaving the Chiltern Way which went left. When the lane turned left I went more or less straight on along the drive to Daws Hill Farm (a sign indicated there was a vineyard there too). The drive seemed pretty much like a lane, with high hedges either side. After a few hundred yards a bridleway forked left from the drive, and I followed it for about three-quarters of a mile until I reached Hedgerley Wood (I went straight on where a path went right, that path being the original route I used when I first did this walk - today I was following 'Alternative 3' on my Google map of the walk).
The short lane walk
The drive to Daws Hill Farm
The bridleway where it leaves the drive to Daws Hill Farm
The bridleway continuing on towards Hedgerley Wood
Looking right from the bridleway
The bridleway continuing on towards Hedgerley Wood
The bridleway continuing on towards Hedgerley Wood
On reaching the wood, I forked right onto a path going uphill through the wood. I looked out for Nettle-leaved Bellflowers along this path, having seen them here before, and spotted them in several places. Near the top of the slope I passed close to a cottage on my right, the path continuing on to reach a road, where I turned right.
The start of the path up through Hedgerley Wood
The path up through Hedgerley Wood
The path up through Hedgerley Wood
The path up through Hedgerley Wood
The minor road