Pete's Walks- Gaddesden Row and Potten End (page 2 of 6)
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I didn't go either way down the lane, instead taking a public byway going right. This went past Puddephats Farm (there is an apostrophe in the name of the lane, but not in the name of the farm, for some reason) and then continued for several hundred yards between tall old hedgerows. It turned left at one point , then later on turned right where a path went more or less straight on. It then turned left and continued along the drive from a property named Nirvana on the OS map.
The byway from Puddephats Farm
The byway from Puddephats Farm
The byway from Puddephats Farm
The byway from Puddephats Farm, after it turns right
The byway from Puddephats Farm
The drive from Nirvana
At the end of the drive I turned right along a lane (not named on the OS map, but as it passes Greenlane Farm I've always supposed it's called Green Lane). It was actually quite a pleasant half-mile stretch along the lane, as it was almost all very gently downhill between hedges and fields, with plenty of colourful wildflowers in the hedgerows and some pleasant views. It was also very quiet, I think only one or two cars went by. At the end of the lane I turned right along Gaddesden Lane, carefully following it round an S-bend and then taking a bridleway on the left. This ran between a small wood and a hedge on my right, then continued through another small wood (where I ignored a path going right).
Green (?) Lane (not named on the OS map, but it goes past Greenlane Farm)
Further along the lane
Approaching the junction with Gaddesden Lane
Start of the bridleway going south from Gaddesden Lane
The bridleway going south from Gaddesden Lane
The bridleway going south from Gaddesden Lane
On the far side of the wood I turned right along a track (the OS map shows the bridleway going through fields just left of this track, but I have never seen any evidence of it running there and a bridleway waymark would later point back along the track). After several hundred yards, the bridleway continued alongside a hedgerow on my left with arable fields to my right. Eventually it brought me to Cupid Green Lane, where I crossed over and continued along a bridleway on the other side, again with a hedgerow on my left.
The bridleway after I turned right
The bridleway to Cupid Green Lane
The bridleway to Cupid Green Lane
The bridleway to Cupid Green Lane (which is behind the crossing hedgerow in this photo)
The bridleway continuing west from Cupid Green Lane