Pete's Walks- Cholesbury, Kingsash, Chartridge (page 2 of 5)
I went left along the lane and passed a cottage, then took a path on my left. After going down and partway up the sides of a small valley the path should really cut across the corner of the field here (as shown on the OS map), but as usual I followed the field edge and turned right in the field corner. I then went left over a stile and walked through the farmyard at Old Brun's Farm. The path then followed the left edge of a large field, soon turning left and then right. At the bottom of a dip the path switched to the left of the hedgerow, but in the field corner at the top of the dip it switched back to the right. It then followed the hedge on my left through two more fields.
The footpath to Old Brun's Farm, after I turned left from the lane
The path to Old Brun's Farm
The path passing Old Brun's Farm
The path continuing from Old Brun's Farm
The path continuing from Old Brun's Farm, after switching to the other side of the hedgerow
The path continuing from Old Brun's Farm
I then crossed a lane, and followed a clear path across a large field - the field was quite colourful as it contained purple Tansy-leaved Phacelia, yellow Oil-seed Rape and a white and pink flower that I didn't recognise (possibly WIld Radish?). Once across the field I entered Lordling Wood, which initially had a lot of Holly in it. I went straight on at a path junction just inside the wood and fairly soon came to a bit of a glade in the wood, with waymarks on a post and a white arrow on a tree pointing down a broad grassy path going off to the right (the way I went). After several hundred yards through the wood I came to a path crossroads, where I turned left and followed a path that ran just inside Great Widmoor Wood (that's the nearest name on the OS map, but the map shows some wood boundaries so perhaps that's not the name here).
The path to Lordling Wood from the lane
The path through Lordling Wood
Lordling Wood - at the post in the centre I turned right (see next photo)
The path through Lordling Wood
The path through Lordling Wood
The path through Lordling Wood
Path through Great Widmoor Wood (?), after I turned left
Path through Great Widmoor Wood (?)
The path ended at a bend in a road, where I went more or less straight on and soon reached the hamlet of Kingsash. I fairly soon came to a path on the left (which would take me to The Lee) that started along a concrete drive (the leftmost of two drives). This soon turned left and then I went through gates on the right either side of another drive and continued through a couple of paddocks. Through a gate or stile in a corner, the path continued alongside a long hedgerow on my left. I have always enjoyed this path between Kingsash and The Lee for some reason - possibly because it's flat and easy to navigate! At one point the path turned left and then right in a field corner. A few hundred yards further on the path switched to the left of the hedgerow. On entering a large empty pasture, I took the path going slightly left.
The road into Kingsash
The start of the path from Kingsash to The Lee
The path from Kingsash to The Lee
The path from Kingsash to The Lee
The path from Kingsash to The Lee
The path from Kingsash to The Lee
The path from Kingsash arriving at The Lee