Pete's Walks- Circular walk from Chesham (page 1 of 5)

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I did this roughly 14.4  mile circular walk on Sunday, 13 January 2013. It was Walk 7 of my Chiltern Chain Walk, done in the opposite direction (anti-clockwise).

I parked at the railway station in Chesham (free because it was a Sunday, one reason I did this walk today!) and started walking about 9.40am. It was a very cold morning, -2C, and it would still only be 0C when I finished the walk. I followed an alley from the side of the station entrance, which ran parallel to the railway line. I soon turned left and crossed a bridge over the railway, the path going round a hairpin bend and then continuing quite steeply uphill. At the top of the slope the path continued across a large arable field, with a good view over Chesham down in the valley on my left. My hands felt quite cold here, but soon warmed up. Through a kissing-gate on the far side, I turned half-left along the edge of a pasture containing four Alpacas and a couple of sheep. Beyond the pasture I turned right along a path between field boundaries, before taking a path on the left at a junction near Dungrove Farm that crossed a large field containing a few ponies or horses.

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The bridge over the railway line, Chesham

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The path climbing uphill from the railway bridge

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View north over  Chesham (the wood on the top of the hill in the centre is Captain's Wood, I think, which I'd pass through much later today)

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Alpacas near Dungrove Fram

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Path across a paddock just north of Dungrove Farm

I crossed the drive to Dungrove Farm, and followed a path alongside a hedge on the left. After a while there were school playing fields on the other side of the hedge. When the hedge eventually met a crossing hedgerow, the path continued ahead through another arable field, and started descending into a valley. On reaching the far side of the field, the path continued on downhill through a rough pasture to reach a bridleway called Bottom Lane. I turned right and followed the bridleway as it ran between hedges in the valley bottom. After several hundred yards, I turned left on a short path that cut across the corner of a field to join Green Lane, a similar hedge-lined bridleway to Bottom Lane.

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The path past the school  playing fields

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The same path descending eastwards

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The path continuing downhill to reach Bottom Lane

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Bottom Lane

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The short-cut across a field corner, between Bottom Lane and Green Lane (rising uphill between hedges)

Green Lane rose uphill, then at the top of the slope passed a wood on the left. There was soon a view to the right, over the Chess Valley towards Chesham Bois. I stayed on Green Lane for about three quarters of a mile in all, until it eventually ended at a lane by White End Park Farm. Here I turned left, but after a couple of hundred yards or so I turned right on a path that followed the right edge of a large empty pasture (I had to take a diversion round a large fallen tree). Along the lane I'd just noticed a Red Kite, and here I saw it swoop down and appear to grab something from the ground.

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Green Lane

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Green Lane

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View right from Green Lane, over the Chess Valley towards Chesham Bois

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Green Lane, approaching White End Park Farm

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The path between two lanes, just past White End Park Farm