Pete's Walks- Bledlow and Radnage (page 3 of 4)
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Across the road, a footpath started down a drive and continued between a fence and a hedge on my right. Where the hedge ended, I turned right onto another path, following the right edge of a grassy field. After a while the path went through a metal kissing-gate in the hedge to my right, the path then dropping quite steeply downhill through another grassy field. At the bottom I went through another gate, just to the right of a line of conifers, and turned left to follow the edge of another field as far as Lodge Hill Farm (the OS map shows the path going through part of the field, but I have never seen any evidence of this and the waymarks seem to confirm that the path follows the field boundary).
The start of the path after crossing the road in Bledlow Ridge
Further along the same path
The path after I turned right on the edge of Bledlow Ridge
The path from Bledlow Ridge (it descends to just right of the fir trees, then turns left along the far side of the fence line)
The path continuing towards Lodge Hill Farm
The path approaching Lodge Hill Farm
On reaching the farm I turned right along its drive, and at its end turned left, following a bridleway alongside a hedge with an enormous field of stubble to my right. After several hundred yards, the bridleway turned right and shortly afterwards I came to a bridleway junction where I kept straight on, now with Lodge Hill rising to my left. The bridleway was soon passing through an area of scrub at the eastern foot of the hill, where I saw some lovely Common Toadflax amongst other wildflowers.
The bridleway between Lodge Hill Farm and Lodge Hill
The bridleway between Lodge Hill Farm and Lodge Hill
The bridleway about to cross the eastern end of Lodge Hill
The bridleway crossing the eastern end of Lodge Hill
The bridleway crossing the eastern end of Lodge Hill, just before it meets the Ridgeway
When I came to a path junction, I turned left and followed part of the Ridgeway as it ascended Lodge Hill - it was only a short bit of uphill and not too steep. I then followed the path as it made its way across the top of the hill, initially with bushes either side.
The footpath (part of the Ridgeway) up the eastern end of Lodge Hill
Looking back, across the Saunderton Valley towards Loosley Row and Lacey Green
The footpath continuing across the top of Lodge Hill