Long Wittenham and Pendon Parva
From the High Street in Long Wittenham head west towards the Plough Inn and when the road bears left just beyond it, keep ahead along the road signposted to Pendon Museum. Pass Elm Close House on the right and a property called Keswick on the left. Avoid a footpath on the right and when you reach a row of cottages, also on the right – Pendon Museum is just a few paces ahead – turn left to follow a byway.
After about 60yds (55m) at a junction, keep ahead on the waymarked footpath. Skirt farmland, bearing right in the field corner, and walk along to a line of trees. At the end of them, turn left over a wooden footbridge spanning a stream. Keep along the left edge of the next field, alongside hedge and fence. The outline of Wittenham Clumps (walk 43) is visible to the left. Make for the field corner, pass through a gap in the boundary and turn left at the road.
After a few paces turn right to join a bridleway. Follow the field edge and soon you reach a galvanized gate. Continue ahead in the next field, pass under power lines and follow the path along the perimeter, up the gentle slope and slightly left. Head for the top corner of the field, go through a gate and then walk round the side of a small wood. On reaching the field edge after a few paces, keep left and follow the perimeter, with the trees on your left. Pass a concrete trig point and keep ahead to the far corner of the field. Don’t go through the wide gap in front of you, into the next field; instead, at the obvious intersection, turn left and follow a broad grassy path.
Keep to the right of farmland and over to the left at one point a cottage with dormer windows and outbuildings can be seen set against a curtain of trees. At the next road, seen close by on the right, join it and turn left. Walk along it briefly to a junction. Turn left towards Long Wittenham and follow the road down to a left bend.
Look for an opening in the hedge and foliage on the right and join a footpath. Keep along the right-hand edge of the field and go through a gap in the corner. Cross a large pasture and in the next corner follow the enclosed path ahead. Cross a footbridge, go through a gate into a pasture and keep ahead to a junction with a track. Cross it to a narrow path leading to the centre of Long Wittenham.
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