Pete's Walks - Pitstone Hill, Dagnall, Ashridge (page 5 of 6)
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Across the road I continued along another bridleway, still enjoying the beautiful woodss. After a few hundred yards I went straight on at a bridleway crossing just after passing a pond on my left), and eventually passed a cottage in the woods (on my right). Immediately after the tall hedges of this cottage I came to another junction, where I took a bridleway going right (actually two go right here the bridleway I took was the one that stayed level. After two or three hundred yards I passed a seat on the right, with a nice view out over the village of Aldbury which was down to my left.
The bridleway on the other side of the road
The bridleway on the other side of the road
Pond beside the bridleway, just before the crossing path
The bridleway continuing through the woods
The bridleway continuing through the woods
The bridleway after it went right
The bridleway after it went right
View left, out over Aldbury
Further on the bridleway merged with another one coming in sharply from my left (the main route between Aldbury and the Bridgewater monument at Ashridge). After another hundred yards or so I came to a bridleway fork where I took the left fork. This bridleway ran fairly level through the bushes and trees just below the Monument, which was out of sight somewhere up to my right. Somewhere along here I spotted a Nuthatch, the first I've seen on my walks for a very long time. It had been such a cold day that there was still frost in some of the shadier parts along the bridleway.
Looking ahead from the first bridleway junction (I forked left at a second such junctions after about 100 yards, just past the two people in the photo)
The bridleway after I forked left
The bridleway after I forked left
The bridleway after I forked left