Pete's Walks - Little Missenden and Knotty Green (page 1 of 6)
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I did this circular walk of about 15 miles on Saturday, 19th October 2019. It was a repeat of a walk I did in July 2017 (that was a basically a repeat of a walk I did in March 2010, but in the opposite direction and starting at Little Missenden rather than Old Amersham), but this time I did it clockwise.
I parked opposite the church in Little Missenden (grid reference SU 922989), and began walking about 9.35am. Starting with the church on my left, I followed the lane through the village, with a junction on the right and then one on the left, and then passing the Red Lion pub on the left. After a quarter of a mile or so I passed the village's other pub, the Crown, also on the left. Where the lane then curved left I went almost straight on a along a footpath starting down a track and following the Misbourne valley towards Amersham Old Town.
Little Missenden church
The Red Lion, one of the two pubs in Little Missenden
The lane through Little Missenden
The Crown, the other pub in Little Missenden
Near the start of the path from Little Missenden along the Misbourne Valley to Amersham Old Town
After almost half a mile, the path went through a gate and crossed a bridleway called Mop End Lane, then continued on along the valley through the park land around a grand house called Shardeloes (now apartments). I had the bright sun almost directly in front of me here, and I struggled to get any decent photos. After a while, having gone through another gate, I passed close to a lake (where the Misbourne had been dammed) on my left, with the big white house somewhere in the trees up the slope on my right. A bit further on I reached a cricket ground, where the path went slightly left to pass the back of the pavilion and then followed a drive. Where this met another drive, coming down from Shardeloes, I turned left and passed through some gates at the entrance to the grounds of Shardeloes. The drive now turned left, but I went straight on along a path that went through some bushes or trees and then followed the river Misbourne under the A413, before turning right and following the main road for a hundred yards or so, The path then forked left and followed a minor road into Amersham Old Town, where the road became the High Street, lined with Georgian and older buildings.
The path from Little Missenden along the Misbourne Valley to Amersham Old Town
The path from Little Missenden along the Misbourne Valley to Amersham Old Town
The path from Little Missenden along the Misbourne Valley to Amersham Old Town
The path from Little Missenden along the Misbourne Valley to Amersham Old Town
The lake below Shardeloes
The path from Little Missenden along the Misbourne Valley to Amersham Old Town, approaching the cricket pitch
The path continuing past the cricket pitch
The road into Amersham Old Town
The road into Amersham Old Town
The High Street, Amersham Old Town
The Market Hall, Amersham Old Town