Pete's Walks- Little Missenden, Holmer Green and Mop End (page 3 of 4)
On leaving the wood, the path soon joined a hedgerow on the right, initially through a meadow sloping up to my left. It continued along a farm track, and then followed a line of trees with some horse-jumps beside them. It eventually brought me to the drive to Shardeloes (a large mansion that is now divided into apartments), where I turned right and followed the drive gently downhill to reach Amersham cricket ground.
The path from Mop End
The path from Mop End
The path from Mop End
The path from Mop End
I turned left into the cricket ground and followed its drive round to the back of the pavilion, then went half-right across grass to a pedestrian gate. A path led on between fences for a hundred yards or so, then I went through a gate into the grounds of Shardeloes. There was now a lake to my right, and soon I could see Shardeloes up on the hill to my left. I spotted some railings that were obviously where a sinkhole had appeared last year, caused by the tunnelling being done here for the HS2 rail line.
The drive from Shardeloes
The path continuing from the cricket ground
The lake below Shardeloes and the weir on the River Misbourne
This is where a sinkhole appeared last year, due to the tunnelling being done for the HS2 rail line (two or three others have since appeared elsewhere)
Shardeloes (built between 1758 and 1766, it is now apartments - during WWII it was used as a maternity ward for women evacuated from London, apparently Sir Tim Rice was one of the babies born there)