Pete's Walks- Cadmore End, Crowell Hill, Radnage (page 5 of 6)
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When I reached a path T-junction, I turned right to head back down the hill along a bridleway. This brought me to a lane named Bottom road, where I went less than a 100 yards left before taking a bridleway on the opposite side.
The bridleway descending from Bledlow Ridge
The bridleway descending from Bledlow Ridge
Looking right from the bridleway descending from Bledlow Ridge
The bridleway descending from Bledlow Ridge, approaching Bottom Road
Bottom Road
The bridleway followed a headland (and the remains of a hedge) between two large ploughed fields, crossing a valley floor and starting up the other side. It ran through the right-hand end of a small wood and then continued along a headland between the ploughed fields again, now starting to get steeper. Further up the hill it ran beside a long thin wood on my right, and not long after the end of the wood it reached a minor road at the top of the hill, where I turned left.
The path from Bottom Road to The City, Radnage
The path from Bottom Road to The City, Radnage
The path from Bottom Road to The City, Radnage
The path from Bottom Road to The City, Radnage
A view looking back towards Bledlow Ridge
I was now in the largest part of Radnage, called The City. A short distance along the road I turned right onto a narrow street. After a while this dropped downhill, and when it ended in the valley bottom I turned left onto a bridleway. This ran between paddocks and a tall hedge on my right, until it reached Bottom Wood. Here I turned left and started along a bridleway through the wood, which is managed as a nature reserve by the Chiltern Society. I followed the bridleway for about a mile and a quarter through the wood, at one point finally seeing a Silver-washed Fritillary for certain, even managing to get a poor photo of it.
The street in The City, Radnage, after I turned right
The bridleway to Bottom Wood
The bridleway through Bottom Wood
The bridleway through Bottom Wood
The bridleway through Bottom Wood
Silver-washed Fritillary, in Bottom Wood