Pete's Walks - North from Little Missenden (page 3 of 4)
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After about a quarter of a mile I went straight on where a lane went left. A little further on, just round a curve to the left as the lane briefly descended into another valley, I turned left onto a footpath that followed a hedgerow on my left. After a few hundred yards the path turned right alongside a paddock fence (a waymark on the fence pointed the way), heading uphill. Near the top of the slope, the path went left (lots of brambles here), and followed a hedgerow on my right. The path continued beside this hedgerow until it reached a corner of a track - here instead of following the track ahead, it went through a gate in the hedge opposite, to continue in the same direction as before beside another hedge on the right - this field was a sheep pasture. Beyond the pasture I passed a wall on my right, the boundary of the estate buildings around Hundridge Manor, before continuing along another hedgerow on my right.
Little Hundridge Lane
The start of the path from Little Hundridge Lane to Hundridge Manor
The path from Little Hundridge Lane to Hundridge Manor
The path from Little Hundridge Lane to Hundridge Manor
View back along the path from Little Hundridge Lane to Hundridge Manor
The path, just before passing Hundridge Manor
The path as it passes Hundridge Manor
Zoomed in shot from near Hundridge Manor (the houses are on the edge of Chesham)
The path continuing from Hundridge Manor
I continued, now beside a wood on my right, still with the same small valley on my left, and stayed with the edge of the wood when it turned right and then left (this was the only place I saw any frost on the ground). When it turned right again, the path went straight on across a large ploughed field - I couldn't actually see a path here, but continued more or less in the same direction as before, perhaps fractionally more right. I was at the end of a ridge with the field dropping gradually down ahead of me. When the tops of the chimneys at Lower Hundridge Farm came into view, I aimed towards them. At first plodding through the furrows of the ploughed field hadn't been too bad, but as I dropped downhill the ground became a bit softer and more and more mud stuck to my boots. At the bottom of the slope, after trudging for almost half a mile across the ploughed field, I was very pleased to finally reach the far side. The path then passed just to the right of the farm buildings at Lower Hundridge Farm to reach Missenden Road (I was only half a mile or so from the outskirts of Chesham here, but it was hidden from me by a curve in the valley I was now in).
The path continuing from Hundridge Manor (it turns left in the field corner)
The path continuing from Hundridge Manor, heading down towards Lower Hundridge Farm
The path continuing from Hundridge Manor, heading down towards Lower Hundridge Farm
I turned left along the road. After about a quarter of a mile, I turned right onto a bridleway (it starts as a gravel driveway, between a hedge and two properties on the right). The bridleway then ran for several hundred yards between hedgerows, that largely blocked any views. After almost half a mile, the bridleway turned slightly right and opened out slightly. It then ran for a while along the left edge of a meadow, with White's Wood on my left.
Missenden Road
The bridleway from Halfway House Farm<
The bridleway from Halfway House Farm
The bridleway from Halfway House Farm
The bridleway from Halfway House Farm
The bridleway continuing past White's Wood