Pete's Walks- Studham Common and Nettleden (page 4 of 5)
Where the fence turned right, the path also turned and dropped down quite steeply into the Golden Valley. In the valley bottom I turned left and followed the path along the valley for about three-quarters of a mile. Where a surfaced drive began, I took a path going sharply right into a wood. This went gradually uphill through a wood, going round a hairpin bend and ending at the road through Little Gaddesden.
View looking back along the Golden Valley
The path dropping down into the Golden Valley
The path continuing along the Golden Valley
The path continuing along the Golden Valley
This is where I turned sharply right, to follow a footpath to Little Gaddesden
The path up to Little Gaddesden
The path up to Little Gaddesden
Across the road and a few yards to the left, I turned into a courtyard and went half left to a gap in a wall, through which a path went right to a stable-yard. Here I went right and then left, and continued on a track that initially had hedges either side. Soon there was a pleasant view on the right, along a valley leading to Nettleden. The bridleway turned left in the valley bottom, then after two or three hundred yards turned right, rising gradually uphill between a hedgerow and a paddock fence on my right. It then went through a small wood to reach a lane at Hudnall Common (where I sat on a seat to eat my lunch).
The bridleway from Little Gaddesden to Hudnall Common
View right from the bridleway from Little Gaddesden to Hudnall Common
The bridleway from Little Gaddesden to Hudnall Common
The bridleway from Little Gaddesden to Hudnall Common
The bridleway from Little Gaddesden to Hudnall Common
The bridleway from Little Gaddesden to Hudnall Common
Hudnall Common