Walks On Commons Near Gt Missenden

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
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    Distance: 15.72 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 5h 10 
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    Difficulty: Not specified
  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 224 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 216 m
  • ▲
    Highest point: 220 m
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    Lowest point: 124 m
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Description

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(S) From here, describe the instructions to follow from the starting point.

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The plot has to end by the location where the walk finishes. If it is a loop please write (S/E) at the end of the description. If it is a one way route write (E).

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 124 m - Start on Link Road, A4128
  2. 2 : km 0.11 - alt. 127 m - Turn right onto High Street, A4128
  3. 3 : km 0.39 - alt. 134 m - walk on the pavement until the road forks. Take the left fork, Rignall Road. Continue over the railway bridge to the last house on the right (just before the 40 mph signs).
  4. 4 : km 0.39 - alt. 134 m - Turn left onto Rignall Road, MC1
  5. 5 : km 0.85 - alt. 133 m - Turn right
  6. 6 : km 0.85 - alt. 133 m - Take the footpath through the gate on your right, across the field, keeping to the left on the first occasion that the path forks. Take the right hand fork when nearing the far side of the field. Go through the gate and bear left across the field to a gate in the hedge. Follow the South Bucks Way signs alongside and then through woods to a tarmac road. Cross the road and take the driveway through a small area of grassy common at Cobblershill Farm.
  7. 7 : km 1.15 - alt. 129 m - Turn left onto South Bucks Way
  8. 8 : km 2.15 - alt. 180 m - Turn sharp left
  9. 9 : km 2.83 - alt. 197 m - Turn slight right onto South Bucks Way
  10. 10 : km 3.54 - alt. 215 m - Keep left onto South Bucks Way
  11. 11 : km 3.81 - alt. 219 m - Turn right onto Cobblershill Lane
  12. 12 : km 3.81 - alt. 219 m - Turn sharp right onto South Bucks Way
  13. 13 : km 3.98 - alt. 220 m - Keep left onto South Bucks Way
  14. 14 : km 4.94 - alt. 207 m - Turn right onto South Bucks Way
  15. 15 : km 5.44 - alt. 216 m - Turn slight right onto South Bucks Way
  16. 16 : km 5.51 - alt. 218 m - Turn left onto South Bucks Way follow the Chiltern Way to Hampden House.
  17. 17 : km 5.85 - alt. 189 m - Turn left
  18. 18 : km 6.42 - alt. 165 m - Turn left
  19. 19 : km 7.41 - alt. 217 m - Turn left
  20. 20 : km 7.49 - alt. 215 m - Turn right
  21. 21 : km 8.38 - alt. 214 m - Turn left
  22. 22 : km 8.43 - alt. 213 m - Keep right
  23. 23 : km 8.46 - alt. 212 m - Turn left
  24. 24 : km 8.46 - alt. 212 m - Turn right onto Memorial Road
  25. 25 : km 9.04 - alt. 199 m - Turn sharp left - We recommend using a compass on this stage to confirm direction due to the number of unmarked paths on the common. Once over the stile you are on Great Hampden common. Follow the path through the trees taking a left hand fork keeping the common boundary on the left and after a while a post and wire fence on your right (in the trees) until you leave the common by a stile.
  26. 26 : km 9.09 - alt. 197 m - Keep left
  27. 27 : km 9.26 - alt. 201 m - Keep left
  28. 28 : km 9.6 - alt. 196 m - Turn right
  29. 29 : km 10.01 - alt. 200 m - Turn right onto Denner Farm Drive
  30. 30 : km 10.06 - alt. 199 m - Turn slight left onto Denner Farm Drive
  31. 31 : km 10.36 - alt. 195 m - Turn left
  32. 32 : km 10.47 - alt. 195 m - Turn left onto Denner Hill Farm Road
  33. 33 : km 10.5 - alt. 195 m - Turn right At the road, turn left and then turn right into a gravel drive after approx 10m, through a double wooden gate by a house and follow the footpath sign behind the house. Cross the field to another stile, go over the stile and cross the next field to a gate. Go through the gate and along a path to a pair of gates just before the road. Go through the gates (do not join the road) and follow the path along the edge of the field. At the corner of the field, go through the hedge and over a stile.
  34. 34 : km 10.73 - alt. 180 m - Turn left onto Rolls Lane
  35. 35 : km 10.96 - alt. 155 m - Turn sharp left onto Hampden Road - Cross the road and follow the footpath through a gate, bearing left across the field to another gate. Take the path across the corner of the woodland to a field. Follow the path to the right alongside the wood, then on a clear path across three fields to a gate. Go through the gate and turn left, following the path through the corner of the field and on to the road (Wycombe Road).
  36. 36 : km 10.97 - alt. 155 m - Turn left
  37. 37 : km 11.9 - alt. 195 m - Turn left
  38. 38 : km 12.19 - alt. 196 m - Turn left onto Wycombe Road, A4128 Go straight on along residential roads - Sixty Acres Road leading to Honor Road. Cross Nairdwood Lane and, continuing in the same direction, take the footpath leading to New Road. At the end of New Road, turn right and follow the Chiltern Heritage Trail along the verge and then turn left beside Andlows Farm.
  39. 39 : km 12.2 - alt. 196 m - Turn left onto Sixty Acres Road
  40. 40 : km 12.55 - alt. 193 m - Turn left onto Honor Road
  41. 41 : km 12.97 - alt. 196 m - Turn right onto Nairdwood Lane
  42. 42 : km 12.98 - alt. 196 m - Turn left
  43. 43 : km 13.08 - alt. 194 m - Turn right onto Salmons Lane
  44. 44 : km 13.09 - alt. 194 m - Turn left onto New Road Continue through Angling Spring Wood, keeping to the right where the path forks. At the end of the wood pass Angling Spring Farm (was View Farm) continue down hill along Whitefield Lane. At the end of the lane, turn left onto London Road and into Great Missenden.
  45. 45 : km 13.26 - alt. 192 m - Turn sharp right onto Green Lane
  46. 46 : km 13.34 - alt. 192 m - Turn left
  47. 47 : km 14.07 - alt. 173 m - Keep right
  48. 48 : km 14.3 - alt. 173 m - Turn left
  49. 49 : km 15.13 - alt. 124 m - Turn left onto London Road, MC60
  50. 50 : km 15.58 - alt. 127 m - Turn right onto Link Road, A4128
  51. S/E : km 15.72 - alt. 124 m

Useful Information

Always stay careful and alert while following a route. Visorando and the author of this walk cannot be held responsible in the event of an accident during this route.

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