Well, we never expected a gap of one year and a month between our penultimate leg of the Hertfordshire Way until its completion. A combination of family responsibilities, illnesses, injuries, weather and coronavirus intervened before we were able to set off on our socially distanced walk from Codicote to St Albans to finish the approximately…
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THE NORTH CHILTERN TRAIL (3) Barton – Pegsdon
The North Chiltern Trail – Barton – Pegsdon The weather forecast was good for the first part of the morning giving me a chance to complete the next section of the North Chiltern Trail. A steep climb out of the village of Barton-le-clay bought me quickly out of the stick in the mud, stubborn, clay…
NORTH CHILTERN TRAIL – Index of Posts
An Index of Posts on the Stunning 42 mile long North Chiltern Trail. Set out in the excellent guidebook available here: North Chiltern Trail Leg 1 – Lilley to Streatley: 5.5 miles, some hills, excellent views, agricultural land, pubs at start and finish, chalky terrain. Leg 2 – Streatley to Barton-le-Clay: 4 absolutely stunning miles. …
NORTH CHILTERN TRAIL – Leg 1: Lilley to Streatley
The North Chiltern Trail – Leg 1 I have walked so many byways in this area over so many years now – why had I not come across The North Chiltern Trail?! It puts together most of the area I have already explored into a disciplined order ripe for my re-discovery. LHD * dropped me…
THE GREENSAND RIDGE WALK – Ampthill to Haynes (Clophill)
The Ampthill to Haynes section of The Greensand Ridge Walk (3rd leg) is 8.8 miles long. In fact as I had curtailed my second day’s walk (see here) I reached Ampthill on my third day (after only walking from Ridgmont) and therefore had time and energy to continue several miles further. I did not make…
THE GREENSAND RIDGE WALK – Woburn to Ampthill (Part 1)
I set off along my second leg of the Greensand Ridge Walk on what was forecast to be the best weather of a wet and windy week. As I crossed the estate fields of Woburn an Easterly wind nearly blew me off my feet. Deer looked across askance at me as if to say “why…
THE GREENSAND RIDGE WALK – Leighton Buzzard to Woburn
The Greensand Ridge Walk – Day 1 A day of sunshine and showers was forecast as the Lovely T dropped me off by the Grand Union Canal in Leighton Buzzard for the first stage of The Greensand Ridge Walk. I always love walking along canals -being nosey peeking in back gardens which run down to…
THE GREENSAND RIDGE WALK – INDEX OF POSTS
The Greensand Ridge cuts like the Yellow Brick Road twisting and turning across the Bedfordshire Countryside. I am walking it during the easing of the coronavirus lockdown during the month of July 2020. My index of posts on walking the Greensand Ridge are set out below. INDEX OF POSTS ON THE GREENSAND RIDGE WALK Leg…
THE WESSEX RIDGEWAY – The Stones to the Wheel: Dorchester to Abbotsbury (Part II)
Four miles! After walking approximately 160 miles across Wiltshire Downs and Wessex Heights I rather held back from putting the top on my thermos flask, rising up my sixty year old hips and completing the last stretch of stunning countryside into Abbotsbury. How wonderful to have my son J with me every step of the…
THE WESSEX RIDGEWAY: The Stones to the Wheel – Dorchester to Abbotsbury (Part 1)
On the last day of my birthday pilgrimage J and I stepped out early along the back streets of Dorchester and soon reached the huge multiple ramparts of the Iron Age hillfort Maiden Castle. He did not need to reminded that we had last climbed this together when he was 6 years old and I…
