Pete's Walks- Redland End and Coombe Hill (page 2 of 5)
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I entered the car park, then turned sharply right onto a bridleway that started up a short flight of 'steps'. The bridleway ran through a wood, parallel to the road nearby on my right, until it met a track, where it went a few yards right to reach a gate by the road. Here the bridleway went left, while a public footpath went more sharply left. The bridleway now curved left in a semi-circle, until it met the footpath coming in from the left (this is not really shown at all on the OS map), I now turned right, still on a bridleway, and continued through what was now Pond Wood. After a while the wood changed into a typical beech wood, and then the bridleway continued through a narrow tree belt (still mainly beeches) with a misty view towards Chequers, the Prime Minister's country residence, to my left.
The start of the bridleway south of Pulpit Hill
The bridleway south of Pulpit Hill (it goes left by the gate)
The start of the bridleway south of Pulpit Hill
Further along the bridleway, now in Pond Wood
The bridleway continuing through Pond Wood
The bridleway continuing through Pond Wood
Looking left towards Chequers
The bridleway continuing through the tree belt extending east from Pond Wood
Across the road a footpath crossed a large arable field (there were some white and yellow plastic stakes marking the route) to reach a lane, where I turned left to follow a lane through the hamlet of Bigmoorend. At its end I turned right onto a section of the Ridgeway, which was soon climbing quite steeply up through Goodmerhill Wood. At the top of the slope the Ridgeway turned left, and I carefully continued to follow its fingerposts and white acorn signs through the wood. At one point it joined a broad track, possibly now in Linton's Wood. Further on this passed through a gap in a wooden railing, and a little further on reached a road on Lodge Hill, where I turned right.
The path across the field to Buckmoorend
The lane through Buckmoorend
The Ridgeway as it leaves Buckmoorend
The Ridgeway approaching Goodmerhill Wood
The Ridgeway after turning left in Goodmerhill Wood
Further along the Ridgeway, possibly now in Linton's Wood
The Ridgeway, shortly before reaching the road on Lodge Hill
The road on Lodge Hill