Pete's Walks - Cholesbury and Chartridge (page 2 of 6)
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Where the byway started to turn left again, I turned left onto a footpath and walked beside a hedgerow on my right. I'm not sure how to describe the large 'field' here, it was long grass with some scrubby bushes in it, perhaps it's being left for wildlife. I turned left when I came to a corner of the field, and continued along a long edge of the field. the footpath then continued as a track, with gardens on my right and some small enclosures on my left. I was now in, or close to, Great Hivings, on the edge of Chesham. At the end of the track I crossed a road and continued down a drive towards Mount Nugent farm. Waymarks on the right indicated where the path left the drive, going through a couple of gates and running between hedges a short way to reach Captain's Wood. Just inside the wood I turned right.
The path after I turned right from the byway
The path after I turned left, heading towards Great Hivings
Further along the same path
Further along the same path
The drive to Mount Nugent Farm
The path approaching Captain's Wood
Captain's Wood (after I turned right)
After one or two hundred yards I turned left, immediately leaving the wood and following a hedgerow on my left quite steeply down into a valley. The path continued up the equally steep opposite side of the valley, switching to the left of the hedgerow about halfway up the slope. At the top of the hill I reached Asheridge Road, where I turned right (I was soon passed by a large group of cyclists).
The path from Captain's Wood
The same path starting up the other side of the valley
The same path after it switched to the other side of the hedgerow
Asheridge Road, on the way from Captain's Wood to Chartridge
Immediately after a house on the left (named Tile's Farm on the OS map), I turned left onto a bridleway. There was some Flax growing in the field here. The bridleway soon switched to the left of a hedgerow as it dropped down into another valley. In the valley bottom the bridleway started to run between tall hedgerows either side. As it made its way up the other side of the valley it passed a caravan site on the left. At the top of the hill, I turned right to follow a road through Chartridge.
The start of the bridleway, from Asheridge Road to Chartridge
The bridleway from Asheridge Road to Chartridge
The bridleway from Asheridge Road to Chartridge
The bridleway from Asheridge Road to Chartridge
The bridleway from Asheridge Road to Chartridge