Start the walk at the public telephone box in Ledburn. Walk up the road, away from Leighton Buzzard and towards Aylesbury, until the telephone box is behind you and on your left. Take the footpath on the left, to the right hand side of the last property in the village. You are in a field with a hedge to the left. Where the hedge ends walk straight across the field ahead to arrive at a small wooden ‘bridge’ crossing a ditch. Take the path ahead across the next field towards a small group of trees and bushes and a ditch. The path bends right to follow the line of the ditch, now on your left.

The path meanders, following the ditch, passing under high voltage cables and at the end of the field turns sharp right. Almost immediately cross a wooden bridge over a ditch to take the footpath, heading for a small copse in the middle of the next field. You will pass under telegraph wires, continuing ahead but ignoring any crossing paths. On nearing the copse you must head for the left hand side, seeking an overgrown path to the left of the pond hidden in the copse.

This brings you, after crossing a wooden bridge, to another field. Walk into the field a few feet, turn sharp right and head for its edge. Turn sharp left to run parallel with the hedge. The hedge gives way to a ditch, which forms the boundary with the next field. Continue straight ahead. Before the end of the ditch is a white post. Shortly after that post look for a wooden sleeper bridge just in front of a copse to cross the ditch. You pass a small copse. Continue to the end of the copse, turning left on an indistinct path to cross a stile into the next field. Ahead the field rises. Walk to the top corner to find a wooden stile at the end of a short brick wall. Cross the stile, turn left and walk carefully up the road, using the verge wherever possible. Pass Old Vicarage Cottage on the left and a church on the right. It is safer to cross to face oncoming traffic at this point. The road bears left after which there is a safer broad grass verge on the left-hand side.

Where the road bears right in front of the blue and gold gates of Mentmore Towers, turn down the road to your left, signposted Ledburn and Leighton Buzzard. Immediately cross that road and walk across the village green, passing swings on your left, heading for a low white fence. Turn left on to a road in front of the houses. Walk down the road, passing a house on the right called ‘The Old Fox’. Where it bends left, leave the road down a tarmac drive with a footpath sign on the right. On reaching the double wooden gates of Haselden House, turn right to go down a narrow footpath to the side of the property. Continue down the narrow path to pass a large sign ‘Private Property Trespassers Keep Out’ (referring to a field on the right). Continue to follow what is now a wooden fence, to emerge from the overgrown path on to the corner of a large field.

Turn left and take a broad path down the side of the field, keeping the hedgerow, with trees, to the left. In the distance to the right you can see the remaining chimney of the Pitstone Cement Works. Continue down this footpath, approaching a small copse with low hedging around the outside and one or two trees in the middle. Ignore the path, which turns right to go around the copse, and take the path which passes to the left-hand side. Almost immediately turn left, where waymarked at a fence.

Continue along this path between fields to reach the end where it opens out. Go ahead to a way marked post where, ignoring the path ahead, turn right to take the path across the next field, converging on the ditch on your right. Cross the ditch just in front of the first tree, using the wooden sleeper bridge, and walk on the path diagonally across the field. The path closes on a small copse, take the path to your left, around the right hand side of the copse. Pass under the rail bridge ahead. Cross the next field diagonally right to a large metal gate, with a stile to the right. Cross the stile and a two-sleeper bridge, again going diagonally right across the next field to a signpost by a pair of metal gates. Go through the small gate to cross the road and go down the road opposite.

Follow the road as it bears left, after which you will see a sign for a humpbacked bridge over the canal. Take the gravel track on the left-hand side of the bridge to the canal path. Turn left and walk the canal path. Continue past Slapton Lock eventually arriving at a disused bridge over the canal. Pass under and continue following the canal until you reach Church Lock. Leave the canal path at this point. Do not cross the canal bridge, but turn left to take the lane, which goes past Church Lock Cottage. Follow the lane down to a road, passing Grove House Stud on the left. At the road turn left, cross over, use the right hand verge to leave the road in 50 yards, at the footpath sign beside a barn.