Pete's Walks - Little Missenden and Knotty Green (page 5 of 6)
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Lunch over, I continued on to reach a lane junction, where I went left and followed a lane that bisected the green. By a bench on the right, I crossed some of the green to a path on the right hand-side and followed it gently downhill to reach a minor road. Across this a path started that would take me to the next village, Penn Street - initially there were hedges either side, with allotments over the hedge on my left. The path then crossed a field of cabbages to reach Tragoe's Plantation, continuing just inside the wood with a field nearby on my left. By the time I reached the far side of the wood it had become Priestlands Wood. At a path junction at the exit from the wood, I forked slightly right and went gently uphill across another field. The path then went through some bushes and along a gravel drive (or private road) to reach the road through Penn Street.
Winchmore Hill (at the bench I crossed the grass to join the path on the right)
The path from Winchmore Hill to Penn Street, passing the allotments (left)
The path from Winchmore Hill to Penn Street, approaching Tragoe's Plantation
Tragoe's Plantation
Priestlands Wood
The path from Priestlands Wood to Penn Street (after I forked right at a path junction on the edge of the wood)
I crossed over the road to the village green, continuing between the village's war memorial and a pond on my right. I then turned right from the green, soon passing through a car park to reach Penn Street church. In front of the church I turned left, and followed a path through Penn Wood for half a mile or so - I'd been hoping to get a nice Autumnal photo somewhere on this walk (they've resurrected the monthly photo competition at work, and Autumn is the theme for October) but here, as everywhere else, the trees were still some weeks away from being at their most colourful.
The green at Penn Street
Penn Street church
The path through Penn Wood from Penn Street church
The path through Penn Wood from Penn Street church
The path through Penn Wood from Penn Street church
The path through Penn Wood from Penn Street church
On the far side of Penn Wood I reached the A404 main road. It took a couple of minutes to cross it, the traffic being unusually busy. I continued down a road but soon forked right along Beamond End Lane. Somewhere along here I spotted some Michaelmas Daisies.
Beamond End Lane
Beamond End Lane
Michaelmas Daisies beside Beamond End Lane