Starting in the parish of Heath and Reach, with your back to the Country Park’s entrance, follow the path to the left of the wooden buildings, through woodland ignoring all side paths to the lake. Continue in the same direction, leaving the lake on your right, a fence is soon reached, turn right and cross a small stream. Follow the path as it rises through conifer trees until a path appears on the left, opposite a small field. Take this left hand path downhill (crossing into Soulbury Parish), until a pond is reached. Turn left at the pond, to cross a stile, waymarked with the Greensand Ridge Walk (GRW) sign.

Continue along this woodland-edge path, through Rushmere Park, until eventually the lake comes into view. The path bears off to the right, at a GRW sign, just before the lake. Follow this to enter Bragenham Lane. Turn left at the lane and cross the road to enter the woods, also waymarked with the GRW sign. The path now runs parallel to the Old Linslade Road, soon to emerge into a field (ignore the GRW which bears left at this point). Continue along the path, beside the hedgerow, then, after a short distance, cross a stile to join the road. Bear left along the road (you are now entering the Parish of Leighton-Linslade) and then cross the Grand Union Canal. Turn left through the cemetery, just past St Mary's Church. The walk now follows the right-hand side of a line of conifer trees, until the canal is reached. Follow the canal-side path. At the end of a high wall, leave the canal and bear right up a steep bank to reach the A4146 by the railway tunnel entrance. Cross the road and go right a short distance to enter Linslade Wood, known locally as Bluebell Wood, a delight to walk through in early May.

Take the right-hand path, which soon bears left, rising up through the woods to an exit into an open grass field. Cross the field and head towards the houses, where a pathway between two houses leads down to the B4032. Cross the road and proceed along Bideford Green for about half a mile, ignoring the first public footpath sign on the right, until a second sign on the right is reached, where the road bears left. Follow the footpath through a small wood then alongside a hedgerow on the right, continue on the same course heading towards the electricity pylon.

Pass through the fence to the right of the pylon, crossing into Buckinghamshire and enter Wing Parish. Head slightly left, crossing two fields, to Waterloo Farm. The path passes to the right of the farm, via a couple of stiles, then continues in the same direction across two fields, to emerge at a stile by the houses. Bear left on to the A418 and walk towards Wing. After 50 yards, cross the road and follow the footpath along the left-hand side of the allotments. Continue in the same general direction, crossing two path junctions and passing a small conifer plantation on the right, to emerge by a gate at the end of a short road between two houses. Take this road, turn right into Well Lane and then follow the lane downhill for about 300 yards to a kissing gate by a footpath sign on the left.

Follow this footpath across a small field to a second stile and gate, continue in the same direction across a very large, usually cropped, field. Head diagonally to the right of the tall tree on the rise. Eventually a small footbridge across a river is reached, proceed over the bridge (entering Mentmore Parish) and around the pond, heading uphill to a stile in the hedgerow opposite. Cross the stile and walk through the field, with an old stable building on the left, until the road is reached. Turn left into Ledburn.

At the road junction, just before the Hare and Hounds, cross the road and take the farm track. (Where the track bears left, the footpath crosses a field but rejoins the track again.) Follow the track over the railway line (entering Slapton Parish) then turn left on to the B488 for a short distance and then right along the road to Grove. Just past the old church (now a private house) turn right beside the Grand Union Canal and follow the towpath for just over a mile, until a bridge over the canal is reached.

Cross the bridge and head straight across the small field to a stile in the hedgerow, ignore the Two Ridges Link path to the right, although both paths go to Slapton. Diagonally cross the next field and join an old farm track at a gap in the hedgerow. Follow this to a new housing estate (once Bury Farm) which soon brings you to Slapton, the half way point. Turn left and walk away from the village along Mill Road, as far as the left-hand bend. Enter the small paddock by the footpath sign (a guard dog is usually chained up). Cross the footbridge over the River Ouzel to pass back into Bedfordshire and enter Billington Parish.

Follow the hedgerow on the left for a short distance, then pass through the hedgerow to a smaller footbridge. Cross the large field, bearing slightly to the right of the church on Billington Hill in the distance. At a gap in the hedgerow, cross the small sleeper-type footbridge, then follow to the right-hand side of the hedgerow until the A4146 is reached. Bear left at the road for a short distance then turn right into Stanbridge Road. Follow the road for about one mile. (There are excellent views here across to Dunstable Downs and the Ivinghoe Hills.) The walk now enters Stanbridge Parish.

Where the road bears left, continue straight on to enter a small wood at a footpath sign. Follow the path through the woods for a couple of hundred yards until it emerges into a field. Diagonally cross the field to the stile in the boundary fence of the bypass. Cross the bypass with caution and climb the ladder stile opposite, bear right and take the left-hand of the two footpaths through three fields, to emerge at Station Road. Go left for a short distance then right into Peddars Lane. Take the first footpath on the left through several small fields then bear right, across the green, towards the church.

Cross the road and walk up Mill Road to Eggington, passing the old windmill (now a private house) on the left to enter Eggington Parish, then pass the Cricket Club on the right. At the road junction, bear right to a footpath sign over the brow of the hill. Follow the footpath through two fields, alongside a hedge on the right. Turn left on to a grassy track (access permission has been granted by the owner) and walk the short distance to the road (A4012).  Cross the Leighton Road and the stile opposite, proceed diagonally across the field to a wooden fence in the corner to enter Hockliffe Parish. Cross the fence and then turn right. Head diagonally across the field heading just to the left of Old Stock Farm. In the corner of the field, behind a large tree, is a footbridge over the Clipstone Brook, cross this bridge then bear right up hill through three fields, heading between St Nicholas' Church and Church Farm (the white house at Church End). The public footpath passes along the driveway of Church Farm, at the lane turn left, then left again at the green, past the church.

At a footpath sign on the left go over the stile and pass through the small cemetery to another stile in the corner, cross this stile and another two. Walk across two fields to rejoin the lane. Follow the lane to its end. The footpath now crosses a large cropped field. If the path is not defined, head between the two large trees in the centre of the field and onto the corner, where a footbridge crosses a stream, and enter Heath and Reach Parish again. Turn left on the other side of the bridge through the tree plantation and then follow the hedgerow on the left, over an old footbridge to eventually appear at Mile Tree Road opposite the Redland works.

Turn left along the road to the cross roads. Turn right into Shenley Hill Road and follow it uphill, past the radio mast on the left and then downhill to Heath Road. Cross the road and turn right along the pavement passing St Leonard's Church and the large house on the left, where a footpath sign points alongside the stone wall. Follow this enclosed path, crossing into a paddock to the kissing gate on the right, the path now goes behind a row of houses until a road is reached. Turn left and pick up the tarmac footpath 20 yards away, follow the path down a flight of steps, then on down hill through Abbey Walk and The Stile to emerge at the Old Linslade Road. Turn right along the road, then left into Thrift Road. At the end of the road, go to the right of the British Legion building and take the right-hand footpath through the woods, ignoring all left-hand paths, to eventually reappear at the car park in Stockgrove Country Park and the end of the walk.