Pete's Walks - Cholesbury and Chartridge (page 3 of 6)
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I followed the road for about half a mile, passing a pub and a Mission Church (both on the right). I then turned left down Cogdells Lane, continuing straight on where it becomes the drive to Cogdells Farm. When the drive turned left, I carried straight on along a bridleway. This soon turned right (a footpath went straight on), with a tall hedgerow on my right and a shorter hedge to my left. The latter sometimes allowed me to have a nice view over the valley on that side - I think it had been about ten years since I last came this way and I'd quite forgotten about these views.
The road through Chartridge
The road through Chartridge
The start of the drive to Cogdells Farm, continuing from Cogdells Lane
The bridleway after I turned right from the drive to Cogdells Farm
View from the bridleway, looking back
Further along the same bridleway
On reaching a wood I went straight on at a path crossroads, now on a footpath as the bridleway turned left at the junction. On the far side of the wood, I turned right along another bridleway. After a few hundred yards, where a wood started on my left, I went straight on at another path crossroads - again I was now on a footpath, this time the bridleway had turned right at the junction. I went straight on at another path crossroads (where I crossed the route of the Chiltern Heritage Trail), and a bit further on the wood became Lowndes Wood. The path all the time was curving imperceptibly from north to west. The path then crossed a meadow or pasture, then followed the right edge of another such field to reach a road.
The bridleway after I went straight on at a path crossroads and then turned right on the far side of a wood
The path through Lowndes Wood, after I went straight on at another path crossrads
The path through Lowndes Wood (this is where it crosses the route of the Chiltern Heritage Trail)
The path through Lowndes Wood
The path through Lowndes Wood
The path continuing from Lowndes Wood
The path continuing from Lowndes Wood