Pete's Walks - Bledlow, Rout's Green, Lodge Hill (page 1 of 3)
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I did this circular walk (actually more of a long thin rectangle) of about 5.5 miles on Monday, 8th September 2025. It was another repeat of a walk I first did in February 2022
I parked outside the church in Bledlow (Grid Reference SP 778022) and started walking just after 11am. With the church on my right I walked down the street to reach The Lions Of Bledlow Pub, and turned left along a byway next to it. When the byway turned right, I went straight on southwards along a hedge-lined bridleway. The bridleway ran for several hundred yards, very gradually gaining height. When I eventually reached a crossing track, I turned left for a few yards and then took a path going half-right - I was on familiar ground as both the Ridgeway and the Chiltern Way go this way.
The start of the byway from next to The Lions of Bledlow pub
The bridleway that continues south from where the byway turns right
The bridleway continuing south
Part of the Ridgeway, after I turned left
The Ridgeway, after I then turned immediately half-right
The path crossed a large pasture (sloping up to my right), fairly soon following a hedge on my left. In the corner of this field I went through a gate and continued along the other side of the field boundary for a few yards to reach another path junction. The Ridgeway goes straight on here, but I took the route of the Chiltern Way by going half-right again (there was some Wild Clematis by the gate here). The path crossed another pasture to reach Wigan's Lane, and after crossing over I continued down the long drive to Old Callow Down Farm.
Further along the Ridgeway, in the same field
Lodge Hill, from the Ridgeway (I took a path forking left here)
Old Man's Beard (Wild Clematis)
Approaching Wigan's Lane
The drive to Old Callow Down Farm, on the other side of Wigan's Lane
The drive eventually turned right just before reaching Old Callow Down Farm, from where I continued straight on along a bridleway. I soon reached Callow Down Farm, where the bridleway goes right along the drive a short way then turns left, along the far side of a fence. After passing the farm on the left, the bridleway soon switched to the left of a hedgerow. It now started gradually rising uphill (I soon saw some Nettle-leaved Bellflower here), steepening as it passed Neighbour's Wood on the left. At the top of the slope the bridleway left the wood behind and followed a track or drive at Rout's Green. At it's end I turned right onto a drive or private road, and then I turned left along another drive or private road.
Approaching Old Callow Down Farm
Passing Callow Down Farm
The bridleway just after Callow Down Farm
The same bridleway now passing Neighbour's Wood
The same bridleway now passing Neighbour's Wood
The same bridleway as it enters Rout's Green
The drive or private road after I turned left in Rout's Green