Pete's Walks - Little Missenden and Knotty Green (page 6 of 6)
If you are considering walking this route yourself, please see my disclaimer. You may also like to see these notes about the maps and GPX files.
After 400-500 yards, shortly after passing Finchers Farm on the right, I took a path that started on the left (just before the entrance to another property on that side). This started alongside a hedge on my right, then continued across part of a field when the hedge turned right. It dropped down to a corner of the field, where it entered a wood. The path went up and down a dip in the wood, then continued between hedgerows and fences - at one point it ran along a line of pine trees. A quarter of a mile or so from the wood the path reached the edge of Holmer Green, where it went right for a few yards and then left between garden fences to reach a street in the village. I went straight on, then turned right at the end of the street.
The start of the path from Beamond End Lane to Holmer Green
The path from Beamond End Lane to Holmer Green
The path from Beamond End Lane to Holmer Green
The path from Beamond End Lane to Holmer Green
The path from Beamond End Lane to Holmer Green
At the end of this street, I crossed over Penfold Lane and started down a bridleway called Kingstreet Lane, almost opposite (the first property on the right along it has 'Penfold' on the gate). This soon became a track running between hedges, where I had no views at all. After a quarter of a mile or so it started to run alongside Coleman's Wood on my right, and a little further on entered the wood. At some point the wood became Haleacre Wood. Where the bridleway left the wood there was a view on the right down to Little Missenden, and a few yards further on a view out to the left.
The start of Kingstreet Lane
Kingstreet Lane
Kingstreet Lane
Kingstreet Lane
Kingstreet Lane
Kingstreet Lane
View right after Kingstreet Lane emerges from the wood, towards Little Missenden
View left after Kingstreet Lane emerges from the wood
The bridleway now dropped downhill between hedges along a 'sunken lane'. At the bottom of the slope it turned right and then left. I went straight on where a path went right (following a hedge on its left), but a little further on I turned half-right onto a crossing footpath. This took me across a large paddock, near a corner of which I reached a lane, where I turned right and soon returned to my car opposite Little Missenden church.
Kingstreet Lane
Kingstreet Lane
Kingstreet Lane
The path after I turned right from Kingstreet Lane, approaching Little Missenden
I enjoyed this walk more than I'd expected to - I do 3 or 4 walks in this part of the Chilterns, with the routes overlapping considerably, so there are some bits that I sometimes feel I've walked too often. But it's been a while since I've walked here, and apart from on the path from Winchmore Hill to Penn Street, I didn't really get that feeling today. Probably the fact that it was such a nice day for a walk helped! The route was relatively flat, with only three relatively gentle bits of uphill, which probably explains why I didn't feel in too bad a state when I finished the 15 miles.