Pete's Walks- Sonning Common and Mapledurham (page 5 of 5)
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.
At the end of the bridleway I came to a minor road, where I went a short distance right to reach a junction with the A4074. I carefully crossed over and went left and followed the road into Chazey Heath where I turned right into Rokesby Road (rejoining the route I did last year, and also rejoining the Chiltern Way which I'd now follow back to Sonning Common). The road took me into Tokers Green, and at its end I went left for a few yards and then took Dysonswood Lane which forked right and then turned right. The surface of the 'lane' deteriorated after it had passed a few isolated houses, so that when it turned left in a valley bottom it wasn't much different to a farm track. A few hundred yards further on it turned right and rose up the other side of this small valley to reach Chalkhousegreen Road.
The A4074 at Chazey Heath
Rokesby Drive, from Chazey Heath to Tokers Green
The start of Dysonswood Lane
Dysonswood Lane
Dysonswood Lane
Dysonswood Lane
Dysonswood Lane, just after it turns left in the valley bottom
Dysonswood Lane
Dysonswood Lane, after it turns right
I turned right along the road, staying with it as it turned left by a junction. Just a little further on I turned left down a lane that brought me to the hamlet of Chalkhouse Green. I then turned left onto a footpath that started down the drive of the first house on the left. Just beyond the garden of this house the path ran between fences with paddocks or pastures either side (horses on the left, white cattle to the right). The path then continued across a very large arable field to reach a minor road. Here I went a short way left then turned right down a lane. After a few yards I went left to enter the Kennylands Memorial Green, turning right onto a path which soon curved left in a corner and then led me back to where I'd parked.
Chalkhousegreen Road
The lane in Chalkhouse Green
Near the start of the path from Chalkhouse Green (immediately after the garden)
The path from Chalkhouse Green
The path from Chalkhouse Green
Back at the Kennylands Millennium Green, Sonning Common
I enjoyed this walk when I did it last year, and I enjoyed the version of it that I did today, too. It was nice to try a few paths I'd not walked before, and this is a corner of the Chilterns that I rarely get to (simply because it takes so long to drive here) so none of the route seemed over-familiar to me. I'd happily do it again, and will probably do it in the opposite direction next time. But it's not a route for people who like a lot of hills, as it was one of the flattest routes I've ever walked in the Chilterns.