Pete's Walks - The Lee and Little Missenden (page 2 of 3)
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Across the lane a footpath continued across a large paddock (with two horses in it) and then went through a small wood. On the far side of the wood the path continued alongside a fence on my left. After a few hundred yards I went through a wooden gate on my left and continued, now gently descending, across a meadow and then beside a wood on my right. The path then went more steeply downhill, following a hedge on my left through a couple of sheep pastures. I then went a short way left beside the A404, before crossing it just left of a roundabout and following a road into Great Missenden.
The path from Ballinger Common to Great Missenden, in the large paddock on the other side of the lane
The path from Ballinger Common to Great Missenden, passing through the wood
The path from Ballinger Common to Great Missenden
The path from Ballinger Common to Great Missenden
A memorial on a kissing gate along the path to Great Missenden. I knew Heather Herrington (and knew that she lived in Great Missenden), she led a walking holiday I went on in Switzerland in the late 1990's. She was a very nice lady and had obviously lived a very interesting life. I was very sorry to hear that she had died.
The path approaching Great Missenden
View towards the valley of Hampden Bottom
The road into Great Missenden
At a roundabout I went a few yards left to the entrance of Great Missenden library (but only becaue the Chiltern heritage Trail guidebook says to do so), then turned round to go over the roundabout (so I could have just turned right originally), then turned left at a second roundabout. I followed this road uphill, and just after crossing a bridge over a railway line, I turned left along a private road. After three or four hundred yards I took a footpath on the right, which ran between fences to reach a large meadow where I followed the hedge on my left gently uphill for several hundred yards to reach Angling Spring Wood. The path continued through the attractive wood for about a third of a mile, then ran through another large meadow to reach a street on the edge of Prestwood.
Great Missenden Library
The road to the railway bridge, Great Missenden
The private road, Great Missenden
Start of the path to Angling Spring Wood
The path to Angling Spring Wood
Angling Spring Wood
Angling Spring Wood
Angling Spring Wood (there is a very old metal kissing-gate here, which has been replaced by a modern wooden one)
The path from Angling Spring Wood to Prestwood