Pete's Walks- Four Hills Walk (page 4 of 6)
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Just after the field on my right ended, I turned right at a path junction, the new path running just inside Kingsfield Wood with the same field still nearby on my right. The path ended by going through a garden to reach a road at the hamlet of Green Hailey, where I turned left (the road here was actually closed to traffic and being repaired, but the workmen were obviously at lunch as none of the machinery was being operated). After about a quarter of a mile I turned right onto a bridleway, which started alongside Hillock Wood on my left and a field to the right. At the end of the field the bridleway then turned left into the wood, and ran for several hundred yards with the Chiltern escarpment sloping down on my right. The bridleway eventually reached a track or drive in Parslow's Hillock, where I turned left to reach the road through the hamlet.
The path just inside the northwestern edge of Kingsfield Wood
The road near Green Hailey
The bridleway going right from the road, beside Hillock Wood
The bridleway continuing through Hillock Wood
The bridleway continuing through Hillock Wood
I turned right then turned left down Lily Bottom Lane, which started beside the Pink and Lily pub. After about half a mile I took a path on the left, which went down a drive past a cottage. As soon as I reached an entrance into Monkton Wood I turned right and followed a path just inside the edge of the wood - this was very muddy in places. After a while there was a new wire fence to my left, keeping the path on the very edge of the wood whereas it used to run a few yards further inside the wood. After a little over a half a mile, I turned left onto a bridleway that ran northeastwards through Monkton Wood (in fact there was a path running next to the bridleway with a fence between them).
The Pink and Lily pub, at Parslow's Hillock
Lily Bottom Lane
The path along the southwestern edge of Monkton Wood
The path along the southwestern edge of Monkton Wood
The path along the southwestern edge of Monkton Wood
The path along the southwestern edge of Monkton Wood
The bridleway going northeast through Monkton Wood
The bridleway going northeast through Monkton Wood
The path took me to a crossroads, which I went across diagonally (half-right) and continued on a short path through Hampden Coppice to reach the cricket ground at Hampden Common. Here I stopped for lunch, as I usually do on this walk, on a seat in the shade of a tree.
The path through Hampden Coppice
The cricket pitch at Hampden Common