Pete's Walks - Coombe Hill and Redland End (page 4 of 5)
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I followed the bridleway north through Hillock Wood for almost half a mile, with the steep slope of the Chiltern escarpment dropping away through the trees on my left. Eventually the bridleway turned right, running between a field on my left and the wood on my right. The bridleway ended at a minor road where I turned left and soon reached the hamlet of Green Hailey - usually here I take the first footpath on the right, just as I reach the hamlet, but this route continues on past the few houses in the hamlet and then takes a bridleway on the right. This bridleway crosses part of a field (a mown meadow today), then turns left along the far side. On reaching the field corner, I went straight on at a slightly staggered crossing of bridleways (so I had to go a few steps to my right before continuing roughly in the same direction as before). The bridleway here immediately entered a corner of Sergeant's Wood, but after a short distance I took a footpath forking half-right from it. After about a hundred yards or so, the path emerged from the trees at a break through which a line of telephone posts ran, and the path continued leftwards alongside the poles for a few hundred yards.
The bridleway going north through Hillock Wood
The bridleway going north through Hillock Wood
The bridleway after turning right, along the edge of Hillock Wood
The minor road, approaching Green Hailey
The path from Green Hailey
View towards the Vale of Aylesbury from near Green Hailey
The bridleway into Sergeant's Wood
The path after I turned half-right in Sergeant's Wood
The path continuing along the line of telephone poles
The path continuing along the line of telephone poles
I then came to another staggered crossroads, where again I had to go a few yards to the right before continuing in the same direction as before. This path soon left the wood, then ran close to a hedge on my right as it dropped downhill through a field of long grass. Soon I had Cross Coppice on my right. On reaching the field corner I turned left along another path, following a hedgerow on my left. On reaching a crossing bridleway I turned right, following the bridleway along the edge of Ninn Wood (to my left) and then between tall hedges with paddocks on either side, until it ended at a road, opposite the car park south of Pulpit Hill.
The short path in Sergeant's Wood after the 'staggered crossroads'
The path continuing from Sergeant's Wood
The path continuing from Sergeant's Wood, Cross Coppice on the right
The path to Ninn Wood, after I turned left
The path to Ninn Wood
The bridleway along the edge of Ninn Wood
The bridleway along the edge of Ninn Wood