Pete's Walks- Hawridge, Chartridge End, Great Hivings (page 3 of 4)
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In the next corner there was a gate or stile, beyond which the path crossed a meadow. The path then crossed a second meadow to the far left corner, where it then went half-right to run along the left edge of a couple of paddocks. I then went straight on at a path junction, now between a hedge and a paddock fence on my right. Beyond this, I turned right along a hedge-lined track. When this turned left, the footpath continued straight on between a wooden fence and a hedge. This brought me to a huge meadow, where I turned left to head south-east once more. The meadow ran for over half a mile towards Captain's Wood, and sloped down into a valley on my right. The path followed the hedge along the top of the meadow, then continued beside the northernmost part of Captain's Wood. I could now look along the valley towards the outskirts of the town of Chesham.
The path continuing southeast, through the first of two meadows
The path continuing southeast, through the second of two meadows
The path continuing southeast, through the first of two paddocks
The path continuing southeast, through the second of two paddocks
The path continuing southeast
The track after I turned right (southwest)
The path continuing southwest
This is where I turned left, southeast, to continue along this footpath to Captain's Wood - I entered the wood where the hedgerow meets it in the centre of the photo
The footpath continuing towards Captain's Wood
The path now alongside part of Captain's Wood
The path now alongside part of Captain's Wood
View back from Captain's Wood
The path entered Captain's Wood at a point where a hedgerow came in from the right. I followed the path through the wood for maybe a hundred yards or so, keeping left at a very narrow fork in the path, then turning left a few yards further on to take a path that left the wood and went past Mount Nugent Farm (on my right), passing through a sequence of gates and along the farm drive to reach a road on the edge of Great Hivings. Across the road, a footpath went half-left (north), beside some garden fences on the left and small enclosures on the right (I'm not sure if this is still Great Hivings, or the beginning of Bellingdon). After several hundred yards the path then continued along the left edge of another large meadow, with Ramscoat Wood over on my right. Part way through the meadow the path turned slightly left to head north-westwards, the general direction I'd be following for most of the rest of the walk. On reaching a corner of the meadow, the path continued between hedges and garden boundaries for a few hundred yards.
Captain's Wood
The footpath past Mount Nugent Farm
The footpath going north, between gardens on the left and a series of enclosures (I'm not sure if this is in Great Hivings or Bellingdon)
The footpath going north, between gardens on the left and a series of enclosures
The footpath going north, between gardens on the left and a series of enclosures
The footpath continuing through a very large meadow, with Ramscoat Wood to the right
The footpath continuing through a very large meadow, with Ramscoat Wood to the right
The path continuing between garden boundaries in Bellingdon, now heading northwest