Pete's Walks- Chenies and Chalfont St Giles (page 2 of 5)
Looking back east, from the bridge over the Chess below Latimer House
Second branch of the river Chess
I crossed a small meadow to reach the road that runs through the Chess Valley. On the other side a path continued through another meadow with a few mature trees in it - I spotted four or five Jays as I reached West Wood. I turned right along a path that initially ran just inside the edge of the wood, before going half-left and going slightly uphill. The path joined a broad drive through the trees where I turned right. The drive took me to a path junction by a lane, across which I entered another wood, Ladies Arbour. The wide bridleway here continued on through the trees into Lane Wood - as always it was a delight to see the trees in their autumn colours.
The path from the river Chess - the road is where the fence is, with the path continuing beyond it towards West Wood
The path through West Wood
The path through West Wood
The path through West Wood
The path through Ladies Arbour
The path through Ladies Arbour
The path through Lane Wood
The path through Lane Wood
The path through Lane Wood
Eventually the bridleway left the woods and ran along a track between hedges. After a short distance I took a footpath going left (south), initially between hedges and then along a hedgerow on my left. After crossing a footbridge over a railway line, I reached a road between Little Chalfont (to my left) and Amersham. I turned right for maybe a quarter of a mile (the traffic was queuing on the far side of the road due to a broken-down bus), then turned left into White Lion Close. At the end of this short street a path continued through allotments, then through a meadow, following a hedge on my right. In the next meadow, the path continued along the right hand hedge to a path junction in the corner, where I turned very sharply left (east) to go back across the meadow (a new path, not shown on the map but indicated by a public footpath waymark, went left from where I entered the meadow, which would have shortened the route slightly).
The path to Little Chalfont
The path through the allotments
The path continuing southwest
The path cutting back east in the same pasture