Pete's Walks- Pitstone Hill, Cow Roast, Aldbury (page 3 of 4)
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I went straight on here, with the road over a hedge on my left, following another of the horse gallops. After quite some distance it turned right and soon two footpaths went off to the left - I took the second one by a yellow topped-post. This actually went more or less straight on, following a hedge on my right, then continuing across another field to reach Aldbury, close to the Valiant Trooper pub.
The path continuing, the other side of the hedge from the road from Tring Station to Aldbury
The path continuing, the other side of the hedge from the road from Tring Station to Aldbury (the grey track is a horse gallop)
Approaching Aldbury
Approaching Aldbury
I turned left, and followed a street through Aldbury. When I reached the village centre, I continued straight on past the village pond. After another couple of hundred yards or so, I turned right onto a bridleway (another spur of the moment decision, simply because I'd not walked it before). This went along a drive past a few houses, then continued slightly uphill for a short way into the woods of Ashridge, where it soon met the main bridleway from Aldbury to the Bridgewater Monument.
Aldbury
Aldbury (I forgot to take the usual photo of the pond and stocks in the village centre!)
The bridleway I took out of Aldbury (the second new path for me today)
The bridleway out of Aldbury
The bridleway out of Aldbury
Back on very familiar territory, I turned left and followed the bridleway uphill. After a while, another bridleway came in on my right, and after another hundred yards or so I forked left onto another bridleway. This ran fairly level across the wooded hillside, with the Bridgewater Monument (and no doubt hordes of visitors) somewhere out of sight at the top of the slope on my right. I'd just seen a sign saying 'Fun Ride', and I was soon passed by a number of horse riders. Further on the bridleway crossed a drive, and continued with a garden fence on the left. Just beyond this, a path came in from the right, and the bridleway turned slightly left and started to steadily descend the wooded slope.
This is now the usual bridleway I take out of Aldbury, the one that goes to the Bridgewater Monument at Ashridge
Further along the same bridleway
The bridleway after I forked left, which runs below the Monument which is uphill on the right
Further along the bridleway
The bridleway continuing past some cottages near the Monument
The bridleway starting to descend
The bridleway descending
View left back towards Aldbury