Date: Sunday 22nd April 2012
Route: Chesham Circular via Little Missenden and Hyde Heath
Distance: 9 miles
If there was a theme to today's walk, it was mainly things beginning with a "b" - bluebells, in the woods, baby rabbits scampering about on one particular section of the path, blossom on the trees and baby lambs in the fields along the route - definitely a "spring has sprung" walk.
This walk is taken from the Chilterns & Thames Valley Pathfinder Guide and starts and ends in the pretty town of Chesham. Although there are rolling hills and a picturesque valley (the bizarrely named Herberts Hole), this isn't really a fantastic walk - the scenery is often blighted by power lines and pylons, the path is very overgrown in places, there are a lot of similar-looking fields to tramp through and the last mile is alongside a busy road. I would definitely avoid this route in the summer, as I suspect that the nettles will be even more grown up by then.
It's not all bad, however - the first section is easy walking through a lovely valley and the Red Lion at Little Missenden is a great lunch stop, complete with the River Misbourne and assorted ducks and swans in the back garden (if it's impossible to get a table there is another pub - The Crown - in Little Missenden further along the route of the walk).
I would rate this walk as a 5 out of 10 walk - am glad to have done it but I won't be rushing to do it again, especially when there are so many other fantastic walks in the area.
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