Pete's Walks - Bledlow Ridge, Bradenham, West Wycombe (page 1 of 5)

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I did this 13.5 mile circular walk on Sunday, 18th December 2011.  It was a repeat of a walk I did in February 2010, but this time I did it in the clockwise direction. As on that previous occasion, there was a little bit of snow on the ground - sometime I'll do this walk on a fine hot summer's day!

I parked at my usual spot in a cul-de-sac in Bledlow Ridge (Grid Reference SU 796978), and started walking at about 10.05am. I walked northwestwards along the road through the village until I reached the point where the route of the Chiltern Way crossed the road (green fingerpost), when I turned right to follow that route northwards out of the village. The path went along a gravel drive, then continued between a fence and a hedge on the right. When I came to a stile I turned right on a path that followed the right edge of a field of rough grass (with a few small enclosures in it) to reach a metal kissing-gate. After going through this, the path dropped steeply downhill through a huge empty sheep pasture (aiming at the right end of some conifers), then at the bottom of the slope the path went over a stile and turned left to follow a fence line to Lodge Hill Farm.

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The Chiltern Way route, heading north out of Bledlow Ridge

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The start of the path down to Lodge Hill Farm

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The path down to Lodge Hill Farm, looking across the Saunderton Valley towards Whiteleaf Hill

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Approaching Lodge Hill Farm, with Lodge Hill behind

I turned right along the farm drive, then turned left at the end. A bridleway now ran beside a thick hedge on my left. In the field corner I turned right for a few yards, then turned left again at a bridleway junction, this bridleway now running northwest with Lodge Hill on my right. The bridleway continued with tall hedges on either side for some distance, then started across a flat arable field. I turned sharply right where a footpath crossed the bridleway in the middle of this field, this path turning right after leaving the field and continuing to the top of Lodge Hill.

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The path going north from Lodge Hill Farm

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The path going north from Lodge Hill Farm

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The path immediately southwest of Lodge Hill

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The path immediately southwest of Lodge Hill

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The path just before I turned right for Lodge Hill

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The path up Lodge Hill

It was very sunny so the views from lodge Hill were very good today. Looking north I could se a large expanse of the Vale of Aylesbury, while nearer at hand was Whiteleaf Hill and also the adjoining villages of Loosley Row and Lacey Green. I followed the path across the top of the hill, meeting yet more dog walkers - I'd now counted six or seven. The path then started to descend down the hill eastwards into the Saunderton Valley, with the windmill at Lacey Green almost directly ahead of me.

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Looking towards Aylesbury from Lodge Hill

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The path along the top of Lodge Hill

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Looking across the Saunderton Valley, towards Whiteleaf Hill

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The path on the top of Lodge Hill (probably the spot with the most snow on the whole walk)

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The path starting to descend Lodge Hill, looking towards Loosley Row and Lacy Green.