Pete's Walks - Pitstone Hill, Dagnall, Ashridge (page 3 of 6)
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On leaving Hoo Wood, the bridleway then ran between a fence and some garden fences, with a huge pasture sloping down to my left (I spotted a few more Fallow Deer here). Through a gate I turned right, now on a byway according to the OS map, and went about another hundred yards towards a gate, beyond which was the road through Little Gaddesden. Instead of going through the gate to the road, I turned very sharply left, and took a path across a paddock. The path continued across a pasture containing some sheep and one or two large white cows. After a while the path had a fence on my right. Beyond this pasture the path crossed a paddock to reach Little Gaddesden church.
The bridleway continuing through Hoo Wood
The bridleway continuing from Hoo Wood
Fallow Deer, in a large pasture to the left of the path
The byway after I turned right, approaching a gate by the road through Little Gaddesden (I turned sharp left just before the gate)
The path to Little Gaddesden church
The path to Little Gaddesden church
I continued along a drive past the church, on my left, and when the drive turned left beyond the churchyard I went straight on along a path across a meadow - once again the nice view, looking back left towards the start of what becomes the Gade valley with a bit of the Vale of Aylesbury beyond, was nowhere near its best. The path then ran for several hundred yards beside an arable field, following a hedgerow on my left. At a path junction, close to a solitary tree in the corner of the field, I went straight on, along the left edge of a paddock to reach a private road in Hudnall. I turned right and followed it to reach a crossroads, where I went straight on along St Margarets Lane (or at least that's what the far end of it is called). After a while this turned slightly left, and then I had a large grassy part of Hudnall Common on my left.
Little Gaddesden church
The start of the path from Little Gaddesden church to Hudnall
View left from just past Little Gaddesden church
The path from Little Gaddesden church to Hudnall
The path from Little Gaddesden church to Hudnall
The private road in Hudnall
St Margaret's Lane (at least that's what the other end of it is called!)