Pete's Walks- Cholesbury, Chesham, The Lee (page 6 of 6)
If you are considering walking this route yourself, please see my disclaimer. You may also like to see these notes about the maps and GPX files.
Across the lane the path ran across a grassy area next to the farm. It then followed the edge of a field (right) to reach a corner of Stonehill Wood. The path continued through this wood, going from the southwest corner to the northeast corner (I went straight on where paths went left and right). I then turned right along a bridleway, which ran for some distance just inside a wood called Ashen Grove, with fields on my right. The bridleway then ran a short way between hedgerows before joining the drive from Dundridge Manor.
The start of the path from Old Brun's Farm
The path continues round the edge of this field to reach the corner of Stonehill Wood
The path through Stonehill Wood
The path through Stonehill Wood
The path through Stonehill Wood
The path through Stonehill Wood
The bridleway along the edge of Ashen Grove
The bridleway along the edge of Ashen Grove
The bridleway continuing from Ashen Grove towards Dundridge Manor
At the end of the drive, I went a few yards right then took a path on the other side of the road. This crossed part of an empty paddock or pasture (going half-right), then went across a corner of a paddock, before continuing diagonally across another paddock. It then went half-right, along the bottom of some gardens in Buckland Common on my left. The path continued along the bottom of a shallow valley, passing two large ploughed fields on my right. Further on it passed through three pastures, still following the valley bottom. I then turned left and followed a road (Rays Hill) quite steeply up hill to reach Hawridge Common, where I turned left to return to my car.
The path to Buckland Common
The path to Buckland Common (it goes over the stile by the white-topped post on the right, then diagonally across the next paddock)
The path continuing along the valley - at this point there are some gardens of houses in Buckland Common on the left
The path continuing along the valley
The path continuing along the valley
The path continuing along the valley (you can see the sails of Hawridge Windmill above the trees on the left)
This was another pleasant walk. I hadn't walked this particular route for some years, but many of the paths were ones I've walked often since then - the section from Chesham along Herberts Hole and on to Bellows Wood was the only part with which I wasn't too familiar. Unfortunately it was another fairly grey day, only brightening up towards the end, but then that's fair enough for late October.