Pete's Walks - The Chiltern Way
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Day 4 22/5/05 Wellbury to Austage End (7.1 miles each way)
Parked in car park on B655, and followed bridleway to rejoin Chiltern Way near Park View Stables in Wellbury.
View from near Great Offley 22/10/05
A nice day weather-wise, and a very pleasant walk. By this time, I was fairly sure I wanted to do the whole Chiltern Way.
The whole day’s walk was very enjoyable. From Wellbury, I took a footpath across fields to Little Offley and then followed farm tracks to reach the A505. Safely across this dual carriageway, I followed more paths that took me towards Great Offley. Perhaps the best part of the day’s walk was just after Great Offley, where there was a descent into a valley that seemed typical of the Chiltern scenery to me. This was followed by more paths and tracks through fields and through a couple of small wooded sections, until I reached the tiny hamlet of Austage End.
On the way back, if I hadn’t read in the Guide Book that there was a Jewish religious institution at Wellbury House, I would have been very surprised to meet three young rabbis in the middle of the countryside!
Total distance: 29.1 miles each way