From Quainton to Waddesdon
Turn right from the car park and follow Station Road towards Quainton. Pass the houses, and when the road curves left, turn right at a footpath sign and stile to follow a track between fields. Quainton and its windmill can be seen on the left. Go through a gateway and turn immediately right to join the North Buckinghamshire Way.
Follow the edge of the field to a kissing gate by a field gate, and continue to a stile in the distant boundary. Cross the stile and continue ahead. Pass through a steel gate and stile. Continue ahead across the field, veering slightly left. Here you’ll find a stile, footbridge and two more stiles all next to each other. Cross the next small field, then a stile, then cross the railway line. Go over a plank bridge, a stile, then two stiles (the second a squeeze stile) through a hedge. Continue beside the hedge, right, for the length of the next long rectangular field, making for telegraph poles. Go over a stile, by the poles and a metal crash barrier, and continue straight ahead on a concrete track. Waddesdon Manor’s pinnacled skyline may be glimpsed up in the trees, right of the church. When the track bends right, go through a kissing gate into the field and turn immediately right.
Skirt Glebe Farm and cross a track via two kissing gates. At the second of the two, aim diagonally right to two stiles and continue alongside a hedgerow, left, in the next field. Go through a kissing gate, cross the field, keeping left, then through another kissing gate to join an enclosed path running into Waddesdon. Turn right onto the main street, past The Lion pub. Across the road note the ornate Five Arrows Hotel and Restaurant building. Continue and enter the church gate on the right. Leave the churchyard by the side gate, coming back onto the road alongside the Long Dog pub.
Follow the road out of the village, passing an old cast-iron milepost. Around 50 paces beyond the speed de-restriction sign, turn right at a waymarker through a kissing gate. Go through a second kissing gate and continue straight ahead across the next field. Cross a concrete farm track, and continue straight ahead, passing under power lines. Aim for a kissing gate and footbridge in the boundary hedge, but beware that the approach to this may be completely overgrown and you will have to come at it from the left-hand side
Aim slightly left in the next field to reach a kissing gate, and then go diagonally left across the next pasture to a kissing gate in the far corner. Continue along the left of the hedge and make for a kissing gate by a field gate. After a few paces go through another kissing gate, turn right and follow the road. From the bridge there is a good view of the railway centre. Go over it and return to the car park.
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