Pete's Walks - Chalfont St Peter and Chenies (page 3 of 3)
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I walked down Chalfont Lane (a residential street rather than a country lane), and at its end continued down Farm Road with paddocks now on my left. Just before reaching Newhouse Farm, I took a bridleway going right, running between more paddocks. After a few hundred yards this brought me to some woodland, with Hillas Wood on my left and Carpenters Wood to my right. Further on the bridleway was in the adjoining Whitelands Wood.
Chalfont Lane, Chorleywood West
Farm Road, Chorleywood West
Near the start of the bridleway from Chorleywood West to Chenies
Looking right from the bridleway - I think the flower in the foreground is a type of Evening Primrose
The bridleway from Chorleywood West to Chenies, approaching Carpenters Wood
The bridleway from Chorleywood West to Chenies (this is either Hillas or Carpenters Wood)
The bridleway from Chorleywood West to Chenies (now in Whitelands Wood)
On the far side of the woods, the bridleway went under a railway bridge and then continued between hedgerows, After a short distance it ran just inside the left edge of Halsey's Wood, before again running between hedgerows once more for several hundred yards to reach the A404 main road. Across this I followed a lane for a quarter of a mile or so into the centre of Chenies, where the old pump on the village green marked the end of the walk.
The bridleway from Chorleywood West to Chenies
The bridleway from Chorleywood West to Chenies
The bridleway from Chorleywood West to Chenies
The bridleway from Chorleywood West to Chenies
The lane into Chenies
This was a reasonable walk, but I can't pretend its one of my favourite routes - I've walked parts of it on four long-distance paths, but I've never used any of it in any of the 150+ walking routes I've created for myself. It's simply too close to too many built-up areas for my liking. But to be fair, the reason its included in this and the other long-distance paths is that there really isn't any sensible alternative way of walking through this rather congested part of the Chilterns. The best part was definitely the walk along the Misbourne valley between Chalfont St Giles and Chalfont St Peter - I didn't remember this very well (unlike the rest of the route, which I'd walked more often and more recently).