Pete's Walks - Lilley to Barton-le-Clay walk (page 2 of 6)
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I turned right along the bridleway, which ran between fences and rose slightly uphill. When the fence on the left turned left, I took a another bridleway that initially ran alongside the fence, heading gently uphill to the top of Galley Hill. I continued northwards over the hill and down the far side. Near the bottom of the slope the bridleway entered a golf course, going across a fairway and then turning half-left a long a track to reach a bridleway crossroads where I turned right.
The bridleway after I turned right, between Warden Hill and Galley Hill (I turned left along the skyline)
The path to the top of Galley Hill
The path to the top of Galley Hill
Looking northwest from Galley Hill
Looking back to Warden Hill from Galley Hill
The path continuing over Galley Hill
The path continuing over Galley Hill
I was now very briefly on a section of the historic Icknield Way, with Maulden Firs on my left and the hedge bordering the golf course to my right. I soon came to another crossing of bridleways where I turned left. I now followed a broad path alongside a hedge on my right for about three-quarters of a mile, until I came to a minor road.
The Icknield Way
The bridleway after I turned left from the Icknield Way
The bridleway after I turned left from the Icknield Way
The bridleway after I turned left from the Icknield Way
I turned left along the road, but for only a hundred yards or so before taking a bridleway on the right, which I followed for about half a mile. Just after passing a fence corner on my right, I went through a gate on the right, immediately going right again at a path junction and going through another gate into a corner of the Barton Hills nature reserve. I walked straight on along the top of a grassy hill, following the southern edge of the nature reserve, with the main valley of Barton Hills stretching away to my left. In the next corner of the reserve that I came to I turned left.
The road where I turned left (but turned right from it after about 100 yards)
The bridleway after I turned right, heading north to Barton Hills
Approaching Barton Hills
The path along the southern end of the Barton Hills nature reserve
Looking north over Barton Hills
Looking west over Barton Hills, after I turned left in a corner of the nature reserve