Pete's Walks- West Wycombe, Fingest and Horsleys Green (page 6 of 7)
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I continued to the end of the lane, passing through part Radnage known as 'The City'. I then turned left along a minor road for about a hundred yards, before turning right onto a bridleway. This was soon heading downhill into a large valley, following a hedge and then a small wood on my left. Towards the bottom of the valley the bridleway passed through the narrow end of another small wood. On reaching Bottom Lane, I crossed over and took the footpath continuing opposite (NOT the bridleway starting a few yards to the left). This climbed very steeply up a long flight of 'steps', through another small wood. The gradient eased as the steps finished and I left the wood, passing some paddocks on my right. The path then ran along the edge of a cricket pitch and some tennis courts to reach the road through Bledlow Ridge.
The bridleway from Radnage to Bledlow Ridge
The bridleway from Radnage to Bledlow Ridge, approaching Bottom Lane
The very steep steps up to Bledlow Ridge (all these shots of my shadow are getting very annoying!)
The path continuing to Bledlow Ridge
The path continuing to Bledlow Ridge, by the Tennis and Cricket Club
I turned right along the road and followed it for about a third of a mile. Not too long after leaving the village I reached Scrubbs Lane (by a bus stop), where I turned left. At the end of the short lane, a footpath continued downhill into another valley, following a hedge on my right through a number of sheep pastures. There was a fine view ahead, over a gap between Slough Wood and Allnutt's Wood towards Lacey Green on the far side of the Saunderton Valley. At the bottom of the slope I reached Slough Lane, where I turned left. The lane soon turned right, and just past a partly frozen pond on the right I took a footpath going uphill across a grassy field to Allnutt's Wood.
The road through Bledlow Ridge (which is the name of the village and the hill)
Looking over a pond in Bledlow Ridge, across the Saunderton valley to Lacey Green
Scrubbs Lane
The path continuing downhill from the end of Scrubbs Lane - I really like this view, it's quite unusual for the Chilterns
Slough Lane, looking towards the path I took up to Allnutt's Wood
This was the last uphill of the day, steep enough but not as steep as the steps up to Bledlow Ridge had been and not too long. On reaching a corner of the field, the gradient eased as it passed through a small section of Allnutt's Wood to reach the tarmac drive to Nobles Farm, where I turned right..
The path to Allnutt's Wood
Looking back from the path to Allnutt's wood
The path continuing through Allnutt's Wood
The drive to Nobles Farm, in Allnutt's Wood