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Start & Finish: Ballinger Common Recreation Ground, Blackthorne Lane, Ballinger (HP16 9LN) Grid Reference SP 911 031
(S/E) From the car park cross the sports field to the far right-hand corner. Go through the gap in the hedge and follow the path straight ahead along the edge of the field. Soon after going through a wide gap into a second field, bear half left on the path that passes to the right of the telegraph pole. (Please note: this is a well-used path but is not the official right of way, which is shown in blue on the map).
(1) At the corner of the field cross the stile and turn right, following the hedgerow, to reach two gates. Go through the one straight ahead and continue, initially with a hedgerow on your right, across the open field towards the right-hand side of a small wood.
At the far side of the field go through a gate and bear half right to the corner of the hedgerow. Stay on the path beside the hedgerow as it curves round to the right, eventually leading to a gate. Go through it and continue ahead along a wide track. When you get to a crossing track turn left up the slope. Stay on this tarmac track all the way to the road at The Lee (A), opposite The Cock and Rabbit Inn.
(2) Turn right then immediately left along the road beside the village green, following it as it curves right. At the far side of the green turn left along the road, passing the church and the cemetery. Just after the large barn conversion (Church Farm House) on the right-hand bend, turn left along a track. When you reach a path junction turn right, joining the diverted Chiltern Way (B). Stay on this track for some distance as it runs along the edge of three fields. Eventually it turns sharp left then right, and soon leads you to a path junction where the Chiltern Way turns right.
(3) Turn right along The Chiltern Way. At the far side of the field go through the gate and turn right along a path between wooden fences. Continue ahead into the wood to reach a path junction. Go straight on to emerge from the trees onto a path that soon joins a wide track. Follow the track across the field towards a white cottage.
Cross the road by the cottage and continue ahead on the path through the woods, which eventually reaches a field. Fork right on the path that heads across the field to the corner of the hedgerow. Walk along the right-hand side of the hedgerow. Go through a gate, pass a row of cottages, and turn right along the road with The Lee village hall and shop on your right. Cross the road and go through the kissing gate opposite the Scout hut into a field.
(4) Follow the path ahead along the line of the telegraph wires, with an isolated cottage in the valley to your right. When you get to a barbed wire fence on the left (after the fourth telegraph pole) turn right downhill on the path into the valley, passing to the right of a dell containing a large copse of trees. At the hedgerow at the bottom turn left and go through the next kissing gate. Follow the track along the valley, with fields on your left and woodland on your right, eventually passing through a kissing gate onto a road.
(5) Turn right and, where the road curves left up the hill, turn right through a gap in the hedgerow next to two metal gates. Turn left on the path directly uphill (ignore the wider track to your right). At the top, pass through a gap in the hedgerow and continue ahead on a grassy track which soon becomes a road with houses on both sides. At the T-junction cross over and go through the kissing gate into Ballinger sports field. Turn left to return to the start. (S/E)
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