Pete's Walks- Cholesbury, Chesham, The Lee (page 4 of 6)
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At this junction I went left through a gate, then immediately turned right, to head in the same northerly direction I'd been on before. This path ran between a hedgerow on my right and a fence on my left. After passing by two fields I reached a path junction, where I went straight on for a few yards before the path entered Bellows Wood at a stile. The path split in two just over the stile, I took the path going downhill (left) just inside the edge of the wood. This seemed a long and steep descent, but the contours on the map tell a different story and when I looked back from the bottom it didn't look anywhere near as steep as it had seemed coming down.
The path after I turned left then immediately right
The path after I turned left then immediately right
The same path, just before entering Bellows Wood
The path descending through Bellows Wood
The path descending through Bellows Wood
I turned right along the bottom of Bellows Wood, with a field close by on my left. After almost a quarter of a mile I turned left at a bridleway junction, still with the same field to my left but now just inside a different wood. At the end of the field, the bridleway turned right but I continued straight on through the wood along a footpath (much churned up by recent forestry work). The path ran through the wood for over half a mile, after a while curving left from north to west, the last part being in Lowndes Wood (the OS map doesn't name the other wood or woods). The path then continued across a couple of empty pastures to reach a minor road.
The bridleway along the bottom of Bellows Wood
The bridleway along the bottom of Bellows Wood
The bridleway after I turned left (this wood isn't named on the OS map, unless it's Lowndes Wood which is named much further on)
The bridleway after I turned left
The path continuing from the bridleway after I turned left
The path continuing from the bridleway after I turned left
The path continuing from the bridleway after I turned left (this is definitely in Lowndes Wood)
The path continuing from Lowndes Wood
Across the road a path continued through Grove Wood, then across a small pasture to another road, just north of Lee Clump (one of the settlements within the village called The Lee).
The path through Grove Wood
The path continuing from Grove Wood