Around Chaddleworth
From the entrance to the car park take the path opposite the former Ibex pub (currently closed), emerging at the next road by three thatched cottages. Keep right and follow the lane for 100yds (91m) to some steps and a footpath on the right. Follow the grassy path which cuts between fields, towards houses. Keep to the right of the village hall and cross the road to a kissing gate.
Skirt the field, ignore a footpath on the left and continue straight ahead. Bear right and go through two gates in quick succession, and keep a horse paddock on your left. Turn left at the end of the paddock (so it still to your left) and keep along the field-edge. Eventually the path begins to descend steeply, with Manor Farm visible below to the right, and becomes a track. Go over a stile and straight on at the road. Just before it bends right, look for a waymarked track on the left, descending to Manor Farm.
Cross the road and follow the path up the slope to a stile. Continue straight ahead, through the gap to the left of the roped-off posts, between wire fences, and ascend the steep slope to the brow of the hill. Descend the slope (the path may be overgrown) to the corner of the field, climbing over a small section of fencing, with two stiles adjacent. Go over these and make the sharp descent straight ahead downhill. The gallops at Whatcombe are clearly visible across the fields below. Cross a stile, then another to reach the road. Follow the sign to Whatcombe and South Fawley. Turn left at the entrance to the Whatcombe Estate and go through the gate. On reaching the Stud, keep left and take the waymarked bridleway.
Climb gradually, and where the track bears left continue ahead on a grassy path. Veer left to a gap in the corner of the field, leading to a small wood. Soon through the wood, the path continues to the left, along its edge. Descend the bank to the overgrown path at the corner of the field and turn left, down onto a path by an electricity generator and mobile phone mast. After a few paces emerge from the trees and fork left onto a track, continuing downhill with farm outbuildings to your right. Pass the attractive buildings of Henley Farm and follow the byway down to the road. Cross to a narrow lane and bear left at the next junction.
Take the first narrow, unmarked lane on the right and climb steeply to a left-hand bend. Walk along to the next junction, turn right and pass the village sign for Chaddleworth. The church is on the left. Turn right towards Shefford, and take the first path left. Enter a field via a squeeze stile and cross it, keeping to the left-hand boundary and passing a large house.
Cross another squeeze stile, in the corner, and go left around the field-edge after a few paces, at a public footpath sign wreathed in nettles and foliage. After another 50 or so paces turn left and drop down to a modern housing development. Turn right at the main road and retrace your steps back to the car park, veering left along the path after the third thatched cottage.
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- Free TV
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