Pete's Walks- Great Missenden and Coombe Hill (page 4 of 5)
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The Ridgeway immediately turned left in Barn Wood, but I went straight on along a footpath (with a bridleway in a gulley to my right). the path climbed steeply uphill through the wood, emerging from it at the top of the hill by a property named Concord House. Here I went over a stile in front of me, and turned left in a large empty pasture. The path went round two sides of this pasture until I reached a stile a short distance before the next field corner. Across the stile I took a path continuing ahead alongside a hedge on my right. Beyond a meadow the path ran through part of a garden to reach the road through the hamlet of Kingsash.
The path through Barn Wood
The path approaching Concord House
The path round two sides of a large pasture
The path continuing from Averingdown Farm
This is taken from the stile where I left the large pasture - I took the path beside the hedgerow on the right
I crossed the road and went down a drive opposite. This soon turned left, and then I went through two gates on the right and headed across a rough paddock to the far left corner. The path now followed hedgerows for about a mile, heading towards the next village, The Lee. I have always enjoyed this section of field paths, though I'm not sure why (and in this afternoon's gloomy conditions I certainly wasn't seeing them at their most favourable). For most of the way the hedgerow was on my left, but eventually the path switched to the other side - I ignored several paths going off to the left and right, the Chiltern Way crossing my path at one point. Finally the path went half-left across an empty paddock to reach some residences in The Lee.
The start of the path from Kingsash to The Lee
The path from Kingsash to The Lee
The path from Kingsash to The Lee
The path from Kingsash to The Lee
The path from Kingsash to The Lee
The path from Kingsash to The Lee
I went over two stiles either side of a gravel parking area, then went right over a third stile into a churchyard. I went past the Old Church, which dates from around 1220, and then its Victorian replacement, to reach a road. I turned right, and after a short distance forked right to go to the right of the large village green. By the Cock and Rabbit pub I crossed a road, and continued down a track starting on the opposite side.
The old church at The Lee
The new church at The Lee
The green at The Lee
The start of the track from The Lee