Pete's Walks - Gaddesden Row and Briden's Camp (shortened version) (page 2 of 3)
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The path then continued straight on through Greenlane Wood. It turned left just before exiting the wood, and then continued beside the wood on my left. I soon reached a fingerpost that had fallen down, where I turned right and crossed another field (I'd walked this path a few times before).
The footpath continuing through Greenlane Wood
The footpath continuing along the edge of Greenlane Wood
The footpath after I turned right, heading away grom Greenlane Wood
Further along the same path
This path brought me to a bridleway where I turned right (it was the same bridleway that had taken me to to Upper Wood Farm, and I was now heading back in the direction of the farm). After a while I had Long Wood on my left, and where it ended I turned left onto a footpath (the route from here to Briden's Camp I'd only walked two or three times before, and the last time was a dozen or more years ago). The path initially ran between the wood on my left and a fence. On entering another field, it turned right to quickly reach a field corner, where I turned left and followed the field edge to return to the road that runs through Gaddesden Row (I think the road is also called Gaddesden Row).
The bridleway after I turned right (heading back towards Upper Wood Farm)
The path after I turned left from the bridleway
The same path after it turned right
The same path after it turned left in a field corner
I turned right and followed the road for maybe a hundred yards, then took a path on the other side (the fingerpost said it was a mile and a quarter to Briden's Camp). Whereas I'd remembered much of the previous path, I didn't really remember this path at all. After passing a property on my right, it entered a huge field and continued for several hundred yards along the left edge of the field. Eventually I came to a gap in the hedge on my left, where I joined a track on the other side and continued on in the same direction. Initially there was a fairly new hedge on my left, with a meadow beyond it, but then the hedge ended and the track just followed the right edge of a number of large corn fields for several hundred yards. I saw more Chicory along here.
The footpath to Briden's Camp, after I turned left from the road (Gaddesden Row)
The footpath to Briden's Camp
The footpath to Briden's Camp
The footpath to Briden's Camp
The footpath to Briden's Camp
The footpath to Briden's Camp
The footpath to Briden's Camp