Pete's Walks- Cholesbury, Kingsash, Chartridge (page 4 of 5)
I soon reached a path junction, where I turned left. The path went quite steeply downhill beside a hedgerow on my right. In the valley bottom I crossed a bridleway running along a track, then followed the path very steeply up the other side of the valley. The path goes straight up the hillside beside a hedge on the right, but there was a herd of cows with calves standing right on the path, so I took a curving route around them. I'd not been looking forward to this steep slope, but it didn't seem quite as bad as when I walked this route before (I think the slope must be about 1-in-5 or even 1-in-4). The path then ended at a bend in a bridleway, where I went straight on. The bridleway soon ended and I continued on along Cogdells Lane in Chartridge. There was soon a children's play area on the left with a seat by it, where I stopped to eat my lunch (I knew it was here, having had my lunch here several times previously).
View from near where I turned left, on to a path heading to Chartridge
The path going to Chartridge
View back along the path going to Chartridge
The path entering Chartridge
At the end of Cogdells Lane I turned left along the road through Chartridge. After about a quarter of a mile I turned right along a bridleway, which would take me to Asheridge. This was initially gravelled as it skirted around a property on my left. The bridleway was then soon running between overhanging hedgerows either side. It then continued along the right edge of a huge field, briefly turning half-right and then straightening again, and then turning right and left in quick succession - by this time it was dropping down into a valley. In the valley bottom it turned left for one or two hundred yards, before turning right and going up the other side of the valley (a much gentler slope than the previous uphill!). After a while I had Braid Wood on my left.
The road through Chartridge
The bridleway to Asheridge
The bridleway to Asheridge
The bridleway to Asheridge
The bridleway to Asheridge
The bridleway to Asheridge
The bridleway to Asheridge, after it turns left in the valley bottom
The bridleway to Asheridge, heading up to Braid Wood
The bridleway to Asheridge, heading up to Braid Wood