Pete's Walks- Chenies, Ley Hill, Chipperfield Common (page 3 of 5)
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The bridleway very soon turned right, following a fence on my right and with a field sloping downhill on my left. After some distance there were trees on either side of the bridleway, and after a mile or so the bridleway ended at a bend in a minor road in the valley of Flaunden Bottom. Here I went more or less straight on, following the road uphill to the village of Flaunden.
The start of the bridleway to Flaunden Bottom
The bridleway to Flaunden Bottom
The bridleway to Flaunden Bottom
The bridleway to Flaunden Bottom
The bridleway to Flaunden Bottom
The road from Flaunden Bottom to Flaunden
Flaunden church (a Victorian replacement for the old church, which was by the river Chess near Latimer)
I followed the road through the village to a crossroads, where I went straight on down what was now a lane (according to the OS map). I followed the lane out of the village and slightly downhill to reach a T-junction, where I went straight on along a footpath through a wood named Lower Plantation. The path took me to the aptly-named Holly Hedges Lane, where I turned right.
The road continuing through Flaunden
The lane out of Flaunden
The path through Lower Plantation
The path through Lower Plantation
The path continuing towards Hollyhedges Lane
Hollyhedges Lane
After a couple of hundred yards or so along the Lane, I turned left onto a bridleway through Woodman's Wood. This bridleway more or less curved right in a large semi-circle through the wood. After almost half a mile I came to a path crossroads, where I turned left onto a footpath. After a while the path was running just inside the edge of the wood, with a field close by on my left. On leaving the wood, the path followed a hedge along the left side of a large field of stubble, until I reached a minor road in the village of Belsize.
The bridleway through Woodman's Wood
The bridleway through Woodman's Wood
The bridleway through Woodman's Wood.
The path through Woodman's Wood, after I turned left at a path junction
The path just after leaving Woodman's Wood, heading towards Belsize