Distance: Aprox 14 Miles
Having a full day free for walking we decided to make a day of it and planned our own walk from the OS map around Ivinghoe Beacon. Starting from Ivinghoe we first headed out in a rough NE direction along footpaths which took us through Grove farm and a pick your own area which was closed at the time. After passing the PYO the footpath took us through Grove Farm to Ivinghoe Aston where we took the road up through the village until we came to the Two Ridges Link which links two long distance trails, Green Sands which heads out towards Thetford and The Ridgeway which heads out to Overton which together following the route of the Ickneild way which was a prehistoric trade route. We took this to the top of the Beacon which is a short sharp climb to the top.
(Thatch hook and Man Trap Ivinghoe, Ivinghoe Beacon, Pitstone Church.)
After getting our breath back whilst taking the expansive view in we then headed towards gallows hill which was used as it name implys to put off the highway robbers etc as would have been easily seen from the road. We then took a permited path to the Coombe folling the Ashridge border trail through the woods to Wards Hurst Farm which has a mirade of paths through it, we took the one heading towards Crawley wood and when we reached the road we turned right taking the path which runs alongside it, crossing over just after the cattle grid, taking the path through the woods which have seen better days to the trackway. At this point we had a choice of heading down to Incombe or bear left for a longer walk, we still had energy so we took the track left, following it to the footpath down along clipper down. At the bottom of the hill we saw a permisive path to the right which we took to Down Farm and the road. We then crossed the road following another permissive path, ignoring the initial foothpath which would had took us through a muddy feild the farmer was about to start plowing and instead followed the path which took us around the edge of the feild and brought us out by Grimms ditch which at this point is very distictive and deep. We followed the ditch to the right to Brook Statnalls Wood, following the path through the wood and around the field to the B448 carefully crossing over to head down to Church end, taking a slight detour through the church yard and down through Pitstone and heading back up to Ivinghoe.
My Rating - Good
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