Pete's Walks- Hudnall and Potten End (page 1 of 3)
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.
I did this roughly 6.2 mile circular walk on Sunday, 18th July 2021. It was a route I've done several times now, usually in the Clockwise direction (as I did today).
I started walking about 9.15am, from the small car park at Hudnall Common (Grid Reference TL006127). I followed the lane (St Margaret's Lane, I believe), with the large grassy part of the common on my left to begin with. I passed various residences over the next half a mile or so, the lane becoming an unsurfaced public byway at some point. The penultimate cottage, on my left, has the intriguing name of 'Covetous Corner' (the name is also on the OS map). The unsurfaced byway then continued between hedges for a few hundred yards, still heading roughly southeast. I kept meeting groups of six girls, obviously from a girls school doing a walk for the Duke of Edinburg Award. The byway eventually became a surfaced lane again, now with wide grass verges either side. I passed the entrance to St Margaret's Farm on my right, and a little further on passed a Buddhist monastery on the same side.
View from Hudnall Common, looking across the Gade Valley
St Margaret's Lane
St Margaret's Lane, near a property named Covetous Corner (that name is also shown on the OS map)
St Margaret's Lane
St Margaret's Lane
View right from St Margaret's Lane
St Margaret's Lane
St Margaret's Lane
Immediately after the monastery I turned right onto a footpath, which went down the drive of a house and continued with the grounds of the monastery on the right. The path continued between a hedge and a fence on the right, with green pastures or meadows beyond. Two joggers came the other way, the second one obviously from the monastery as he was wearing orange-brown robes.Fairly soon the path was descending into a valley, where I reached the village of Nettleden.
The path beside the Buddhist monastery
The path descending towards Nettleden
The path descending towards Nettleden
View from the path descending towards Nettleden
The path descending towards Nettleden
View from the path descending towards Nettleden
The path descending towards Nettleden