Take
the footpath to the right of the British Legion hall. Shortly take the right
hand fork to pass a large metal gate on your right and go through a wooden gate.
Keep straight ahead. The path descends through a gate with a sign for Stockgrove
Country Park. Continue ahead towards the Visitors Centre Car Park. The path
meets a fence. Turn right away from the Car Park to go through a wooden gate and
cross the road. Go through a metal gate and take the footpath signposted Greensand
Ridge Walk (GRW).
Almost immediately take the left forking path to walk
parallel to the road, now on the left. At the end of the path go over a stile
onto a narrow path overgrown on both sides. Go over the next stile, at the side
of which is a sign ‘Danger Lorries Crossing’, onto a track. Turn right along
the track until you reach a point where the track bears left. Straight ahead are
posts with the GRW Muntjak Deer symbol and to the right a narrower sandy path.
Take this path shortly to pass a Rammamere Heath information sign.
Rolling
countryside and an area that is teeming with wildlife
ensures that there are plenty of focal
points on this delightful woodland
walk.
Go straight ahead. Enter a thicket, shortly to pass a GRW
post. Later ignore a crossing path, continue straight ahead and eventually
arrive at a stile waymarked GRW. Go over the stile. You now stand at the edge of
a large open field with farm buildings ahead. Turn left and cross a stile in the
hedge to the right of an opening to another field. Take the path to the left
edge. Pass into the next field again taking the left edge, shortly passing a
pond surrounded by trees. You are now on a path parallel with telegraph wires
but where the wires pass into the next field, near a footpath sign, do not turn
left but carry straight on until you come to another sign, pointing you across
the corner of the field. Look out for a stile hidden in the hedgerow on the far
side of the field.
Go
over the stile and bear slightly right. The footpath goes across the field to a
hedge. The way through the hedge is by two wooden gateposts. Continue ahead
towards a large tree. Cross a wooden stile on the right of the tree into the
next field. The buildings of Home Farm are directly ahead. Continue ahead with
the hedge on the right. Before the hedge ends, watch very carefully for a stile.
Go over it and the wooden bridge to cross a ditch. The line of the path is
diagonally across a riding-school enclosure in front of the farm buildings. Turn
left along the lane beside the farm and walk towards Great Brickhill. At a
T-junction with a road, turn left. Walk into Great Brickhill, arriving at The
Old Red Lion pub.
Take the lane opposite the pub, then Cuff Lane on the right
which, after a house on the right called the Willows, becomes a gravel footpath.
Pass the gates of a sewage works then cross a stream. Bear right with the now
sandy path. Go through a wooden gate. The way becomes more open, then enters a
wooded area rising gradually to a fork; take the right hand path.
Ignore a path
to the left and continue ahead as it enters a more densely wooded area, soon to
descend steeply, converging with a fence on the right, at the end of which and
at the bottom of the descent, is a junction of paths. Take the path straight
ahead signposted Greensand Ridge Walk. Eventually pass a large pond on
the left and cross a stream. Go straight ahead, almost immediately crossing a
stile. The path rises shortly to arrive at a footpath on the left (GRW signed
straight on).
Take this footpath to eventually cross a broader track. The
path descends steeply to a dip where you cross a stream. Shortly the path climbs
steeply. As it levels out, ignore a path to the left leading to a very sandy
area with signs of excavation. Take instead the path that goes slightly to the
right. Continue on this path away from the sandy area. At the fork, take the
right hand path where the area is more open, then straight on to arrive at a
stile. Cross the stile and bear right then straight on, to return to the Royal
British Legion hall.