Pete's Walks - Cholesbury and Herberts Hole (page 4 of 6)
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At the end of the bridleway I went straight on along a lane. After passing a house on my right, I took a footpath on that side that went uphill between a fence and a hedge on my right. After the field to my left ended there was a garden fence on that side, and the path levelled out. When the garden ended, I continued down a drive for a few yards, to where it turned right. Here I turned left (through a gate) and then immediately turned right through a metal gate, so that I was heading in more or less the same direction as before. The path ran for over a quarter of a mile between a hedge and fence on my left and a hedge on my right, until it reached Bellows Wood.
The path going up from Herberts Hole
Further along the same path
The path to Bellows Wood
The path to Bellows Wood
The path to Bellows Wood
View from near Bellows Wood
The path turned right into Bellows Wood, then I immediately turned left at a path junction and started to drop downhill through the wood. Partway down the slope the path ended where it met a bridleway, which had come in from the left and now continued downhill through the wood. At the bottom of the valley the bridleway turned right at a 'crossroads' (where footpaths went left and straight on), and followed the valley bottom, running just inside the wood with a fields nearby on my left. Close to where the wood ended, I went straight on where another bridleway went left. There was now a wood on my left, and just before it ended I turned left onto another bridleway which rose uphill just inside the wood. There was a view to my right here, along Pednor Bottom.
The path descending through Bellows Wood
The bridleway through Bellows Wood, after I turned right in the valley bottom
The bridleway continuing from Bellows Wood
The bridleway after I turned left
Near the top of the slope the bridleway turned right at a 'crossroads' where footpaths went left and straight on - I took the path going straight on. This path soon levelled out as it continued through the wood for about a quarter of a mile until it ended at a junction with a bridleway. Here I turned left, the bridleway dropping downhill a short way to reach a valley bottom. At this point there was a third of these unusual crossroads, where a bridleway turns to one side (this time to the left) rather than going straight on, with paths going in the other two directions. I've come across such junctions very occasionally, it just seems peculiar that here there are three such junctions within half a mile of each other. Anyway I turned right, along a footpath heading north through more woodland.
The footpath continuing ahead through a wood, after the bridleway turns right at a path crossroads
Further along the same path
Further along the same path
The bridleway after I turned left at the end of the path, dropping downhill to a junction in the valley bottom