Pete's Walks- Redland End and Bryant's Bottom (page 4 of 5)
I turned left along the edge of an empty cattle pasture with Nanfan Wood now on my left - there was a fence on my right, new since I last came this way. There was a slight rise here over the brow of a hill. The path continued beside the wood through a second pasture and into a third, where I started to drop back down into the valley I'd just crossed - there was a nice view right here of woods, fields, hills and valleys. Just before reaching the end of Nanfan wood on my left, the path went half-left to cut through a tiny corner of the wood, then continued in the same direction downhill across a large field (the same one I'd been in a short while before) to reach a road junction.
The path beside Nanfan Wood
The path beside Nanfan Wood
The path beside Nanfan Wood
View right from the path beside Nanfan Wood
The path continuing downhill from Nanfan Wood, towards the lane junction
I crossed over and took the footpath on the opposite side - I was pleased to see there was a new metal gate here, as last time I came this way the old stile that was here was in such a precarious state I'd been considering following the lane instead of taking this path. The path followed the hedge beside Rolls Lane (on my right) uphill through a large empty pasture. After a few hundred yards, it turned left between fences (there was a gap in the hedge here, so I could also have just followed the lane to this point, as I'd been considering) to almost reach the top of the slope. I then crossed a large empty paddock to reach a stile that led into a small field behind a couple of houses. The path went half-left here alongside a fence, then went through the back garden and down the drive of the leftmost house, to reach a lane.
The path beside Rolls Lane
The path after it turns left
View left
The path crossing the paddock on Denner Hill
The path continuing towards the houses on Denner Hill
I went a few yards left along the lane, then took a footpath starting on the other side. This went through the left edge of a pasture or paddock. It went a few yards into the next field, then turned right at a path junction and headed towards Denner Farm. On reaching the farm I continued along its drive, until just a short distance after it had turned right. I then took a footpath on the left through Hampden Common, initially with a permissive bridleway close by on my left. On reaching a path fork, with a waymark post, I kept right and soon reached a drive or track on the edge of the common, where I turned left.
The start of the path from Denner Hill
The path after turning right, heading to Denner Farm
The path passing Denner Farm
The path through Hampden Common
Where I forked right on Hampden Common