Start: Tring Railway Station (A), Station Road, Tring HP23 5QR. Grid ref: SP 950 122
(S/E) This route follows The Ridgeway path (B) to Ivinghoe Beacon. Leave the station, cross the road and turn right along the pavement. Cross over Northfield Road and stay in the same direction along the road edge for 100m to the entrance to Westland Farm.
Turn left through the gate, walk up beside the concrete driveway and stay in this direction for 130m to a major path junction.
(1) Turn left along the wide track for 550m.
(2) Bear right uphill past the entrance to Aldbury Nowers Nature Reserve (C). Ignore the first path on the left, walk a few metres and climb the steps to the left. Follow the path through the woods for almost 1km before passing through a gate on to the grassy hillside of Pitstone Hill (D).
(3) Keep straight ahead, climbing round the side of the hill to the top and along the ridge before descending to the car park below. Cross the road and go through the gate opposite. Continue straight ahead, keeping to the left of the fence for 550m to a path junction.
(4) Proceed in the same direction and climb the hill to the right of the dry valley (Incombe Hole). Ignore the gate on the right and continue on the stony track. Where that peters out stay straight ahead towards and through a small wood. Follow the path round the hillside, go through a gate and drop down to a road.
(5) Cross over the road and take the main path to the top of Ivinghoe Beacon (E).
(6) After enjoying the view, turn right near the Trig Point. Continue along the ridge, going through the first gate. Just before the second gate, turn right downhill. Go through the next gate near the bottom and continue ahead for 100m.
(7) Turn right on a wide track across the middle of the field. Pass through a gate, follow the path round to the left and go through the next gate into a wood (The Combe). You walk through deciduous trees at first and then wind through a closely planted conifer plantation.
Initially you are on a broad path between the lines of trees, but midway through the plantation take the fork a quarter-left through the conifers, emerging alongside an open field. Continue in the same direction and climb steps up the steep sided ridge. At the top go through two gates into a farmyard.
(8) Turn right, follow the waymarked route through the farm and leave on the concrete driveway. At the road, cross straight over, take a few paces into the wood and turn right. After 80m fork left and follow the path down to a major track (Duncombe Terrace).
(9) Turn left along the track (Duncombe Terrace) (F) and stay on it for approximately 1.5 km to arrive at a tall tower, the Bridgewater Monument (G), and the visitor centre.
(10) Continue past the Bridgewater Monument and the visitor centre and take the wide path downhill. After about 200m fork right to continue to drop down to a road (Toms Hill Road) into Aldbury (H).
(11) Turn right and go over the road junction into Station Road. Walk past the pond, Post Office and village hall.
(12) Just after the church turn right on a path signposted to Pitstone Hill. Go through two gates and left through a third just before a large barn. Follow the path through two more gates to reach a T-junction.
(13) Turn left and stay on this path to reach a road. Bear right on the road to return to the station and finish the walk. (S/E)
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