From the car park on Aldbury Common head towards the distinctive column of the Bridgewater Monument (built in memory of Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater), turning left at a footpath sign. Keep straight on along this track until, just before a pond, you turn left by a footpath post at a track crossroads.

On reaching a road (B4506), cross on to a bridleway. The woodland gives way on the left to parkland with cattle grazing. The track bears right into woodland, skirting a paddock and Woodyard Cottages, to reach a metalled track. Follow it to the right, still within woodland. At a footpath crossroads, before a gate to some farm buildings, go left on to a track. At a track fork bear left and, reaching a field, follow the path that descends along the right-hand edge of the woods to a tree belt and then runs through it to a road.

Turn left on the road and, past the ornate Berkhamsted Lodge, bear right at a footpath sign, to climb through woodland. At the crest walk alongside some wire fencing and the grounds of Ashridge College.

Cross the drive at the side of the college and walk across the sports field, looking for a yellow waymarker by some trees. The route crosses Prince's Riding here, with the vista terminated by the Bridgewater Monument. Continue ahead at a waymarker post and, skirting left of a clump of young trees, descend to another waymarker post in a belt of trees. Go through this, cross the golf course to a waymarker post and continue uphill through trees. Go right to skirt a golf practice range and bear left alongside it, a fence on your right. Beyond the practice tees the path winds through a copse to a road.

Turn right along the road, now the Chiltern Way. Where it turns left, the footpath bears right between garden hedges, across a fairway, then between more gardens and past the gate to Witches Hollow. At a footpath crossroads turn left on to a metalled track.

Follow the metalled lane downhill. Past the drive to Witchcraft Hill it becomes a path through woods. Over a stile the path bears left alongside a clearing, then into some woods to the road at Ringshall.

Turn left here and continue along a path parallel with the main road, shortly leaving it to cross the road and continue on the verge alongside low garden walls and turn right into the woodland of Ivinghoe Common. At a National Trust bridleway post bear left, then left again to walk along a ride, ignoring all tracks and paths to left or right. Eventually you cross a dry valley and, at a bridleway post where the track bears right, go almost straight on to wind through the wood to Prince's Riding and the car park.