Pete's Walks - Bradenham and Lodge Hill (page 3 of 5)
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The path then dropped quite steeply down the eastern side of Lodge Hill, with a fine view ahead over the Saunderton valley towards Loosley Row. At the bottom of the slope, the path continued beside a hedgerow on my right for almost half a mile, very gently descending. I met a walker coming the other way, and we stopped and chatted for five minutes or so - he was doing a section of the Rdgeway. There was a kink in the path part way along, where the hedgerow turned left and then right. Eventually the path brought me to a minor road.
The path continuing from the foot of Lodge Hill, with a view ahead across the Saunderton Valley to Loosley Row
Further along the same path
Further along the same path
Across the road, I continued following the Ridgeway as it went down the drive to Longwood Farm, then carried on along a tree-lined path between paddocks and fields. The path then continued past the Princes Risborough golf course until it reached a railway line. There were pedestrian traffic lights here, but fortunately I had a green light (I'd just heard a train go by). The path then soon went through a gate and crossed a meadow (there were signs up about the wild life here), then went through two more gates in quick succession - the section between these to gates was over a railway tunnel, I could see the line in a cutting to my right.
The path after crossing the minor road, going down the drive to Longwood Farm
The path continuing from Longwood Farm
The path continuing from Longwood Farm
The path continuing from Longwood Farm
The same path after crossing a railway line
A little further along the same path
The same path as it crosses over the start of a railway tunnel
View down to the railway line
Beyond the last of these gates, I left the Ridgeway by turning right along a field edge, running parallel to the railway cutting I'd just seen. For the second walk in a row I saw a Jersey Tiger moth (they're also having a good year), but this time couldn't get a photo. After a few hundred yards I turned left at a path junction, the path first going to a tree at the left end of a hedgerow and then crossing a very flat field to reach the A4010 main road.
The footpath after I turned right, running beside the railway
Just before I turned left at a path junction
The path continuing towards the A4010 main road