Pete's Walks - Whiteleaf Hill and Loosley Row (page 2 of 3)
After almost half a mile I turned right on to part of the Chiltern Way (which I'd now follow for a couple of miles) - here it was on a bridleway along part of the course of an ancient earthwork called Grim's Ditch. After a hundred yards or so I took a path forking right across the corner of a field of stubble to a metal gate, beyond which the path continued across a huge horse field, heading to near the far right corner.
The start of the bridleway after I turned right from Lily Bottom Lane
The start of the footpath to Lacey Green (part of the Chiltern Way), after I turned right from the bridleway
The path to Lacey Green, in the horse field
Beyond a gate in the corner of the field, a track led between the wooden fences of some paddocks, and then the path went half-right across part of the last paddock on that side. The path then continued across part of an arable field and alongside a hedge, before running alongside a hedge through an cattle pasture (some surprisingly young cows here) and then through a meadow. This brought me to Lacey Green close to its prominent windmill.
Zoomed in shot looking ahead along the path to Lacey Green
The path to Lacey Green, going through the paddocks
The path to Lacey Green, crossing a paddock
The path to Lacey Green
The path to Lacey Green
I turned right for a few yards then went left at a crossroads, along a street that dropped downhill into the adjoining settlement of Loosley Row. I then turned right at another crossroads. A footpath on the left then led downhill to Collin's Farm, with its drive continuing on down into the broad Saunderton Valley. A few hundred yards down the drive, the footpath went a few yards left almost to a lane, before turning right, soon crossing the drive and following a left-hand hedgerow to reach the Princes Risborough to Wycombe Road (A4010).
The street from Lacey Green to Loosley Row
The street in Loosley Row (I turned left where the street goes out of view)
View from Collin's Farm
The drive from Collin's Farm
The drive from Collin's Farm
The path going left from the drive from Collin's Farm
The same path after it crosses the drive from Collin's Farm. approaching the A4010