Start: Parkfield Sports Ground, off Hitchin Road, Kimpton SG4 8SB Grid Ref. TL 176 185
(S/E) Leave via the car park entrance, turn immediate left through a gate, walk straight ahead along the field edge and go through a gap into the next field. (A)
(1) Bear left along the field edge, stay in the same direction for 650m and cross a stile into a field. The route crosses a stile about 40m to the left of the farm buildings. Then bears right, continuing across 2 more stiles before bear a little further right to go over the last stile into a lane (this stile is behind the Oak tree). Turn right along the lane for 230m and look for a byway on the left (signed Byway 19 to Bendish Lane).
(2) Turning left on the byway and walk along the edge of two fields. Go through a gap in the hedgerow to meet a wide track on a bend. Turn right and follow the track, initially along the right-edge of a field and then across the middle of the field to meet a major crossing track.
(3) Turn left along the track. The route now follows the Chiltern Way (B) until Waypoint (5). Follow the track, ignore all turnings to the left and right and continue down to a lane (Whitewaybottom Lane). Cross, go past the barrier opposite and go straight on along the field edge to the entrance into the next field.
(4) Do not enter the field, instead turn left uphill. At the top of the slope turn right through a gap in the hedgerow. Follow the path across the middle of the field to a lane. You are aiming for the far, top corner of the field (South-West). Turn left along the lane for 250m to a footpath on the right. Go past the barrier into the field on the right and keep straight on to the right of the hedgerow down to and through a wide gap in the hedgerow ahead.
(5) Turn left on a bridleway, leaving the Chiltern Way. After 70 metres, bear left down through the hedge, past a gate into a field. Continue in the same direction along the right-hand hedge, and leave the field through a gate onto a lane. Turn right along the lane to a road junction by Cannons Farm. Turn left towards Kimpton and, at the first bend, take the path on the right into a field.
(6) Bear left over the field towards the hedgerow ahead and turn left alongside it. Where the hedgerow ends, continue in the same direction across the field to meet a crossing path inside the field next to a road.
(7) This is a permissive path known as The Chris Baker Way. Turn left along the path and drop down to the road junction at Fox Hill. Cross straight over and take the track opposite (signed Bridleway 33 to Claggy Road). Follow the track across the field and along the backs of houses to a road (Claggy Road).
(8) Cross to the pavement opposite, turn right and then left along the High Street. Follow the pavement past The Boot pub as far as the Dacre Rooms and turn left up Church Lane. Walk past The Green and turn left through the barrier into Garden Fields. Turn right and walk over the grass up the right-hand side of the green area. Leave at the top right-hand corner to return to the car park. (S/E)
