Pete's Walks - Cholesbury and Chartridge (page 4 of 6)
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I turned right along the road, and soon came to a T-junction. A footpath continued straight ahead, running to the left of a hedgerow with paddocks of tall grass to my left, gradually descending into a small valley. In the valley bottom the path joined a grey gravel track as it went up the other side of the valley, beside a wood on my left. The path went straight on when the track turned left, soon following a hedge on the left with a view ahead to Erriwig Farm. When the hedge ended at the bottom of a shallow valley, the path continued across part of a corn field to another hedgerow. Through the hedgerow the path ended at a bridleway, where I went more or less straight on to reach Arrewig Lane.
The short road walk, after I turned right at the end of the path from Lowndes Wood
The path going straight on from the road junction
Further along the same path
Further along the same path, now with Erriwig Farm in view
Further along the same path
The bridleway continuing straight on to Arrewig Lane
I turned left along Arrewig Lane, towards Erriwig Farm (both names are from the Saxon for 'way to the fields', apparently). Immediately before the farm I turned left onto a footpath, that ran along the right edge of a large corn field. I felt just one or two spots of rain along here, but fortunately that was all. On eventually reaching a field corner, the path turned left alongside a wood. After a few hundred yards the path turned into the wood (at a waymark post), almost immediately turning left. On reaching another waymark post at a path junction, I turned right.
Arrewig Lane
The path from Erriwig Farm
The path from Erriwig Farm, after it turns left alonside a wood
The path from Erriwig Farm
The path from Erriwig Farm
Where the path exited the wood, I hit a problem. Tall brambles blocked the way. I went back a few yards and looked to see if there was a way to detour round the blockage, but could see no clear way out of the wood. So I went ahead, carefully pushing the brambles out of the way and fortunately managed to get past them without getting snagged on them. The path was OK for a short distance, running between bushes either side, but then I could see a section in front of me where numerous brambles crossed the path. This time though there was an easy escape route on the right. I then joined a tree-lined track heading to Dundridge Manor. Just before reaching some farm buildings, the path forked slightly right from the track. Beyond the farm buildings. the path should have gone straight on to a hedgerow, but this was completely blocked by a tangly crop of oil-seed rape. So I continued half-right along a new farm track, then turned left along another track next to the hedgerow. This track went though the hedge at the point the footpath reached it (I think), so I just turned left along the far side of the hedgerow and followed it to reach the drive from Dundridge Manor.
The path from Erriwig Farm, just before it leaves the wood
The track heading to Dundridge Manor
The track from Dundridge Manor (the footpath should have gone through the crop on my left
The footpath at Dundridge Manor after I went left at a path T-junction