Tring Circular walk
The Chilterns: An open ridge walk to Ivinghoe Beacon, gentle forests, and a classic village pub for tea.
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2024-9-49
Saturday Walkers Club:
https://www.walkingclub.org.uk/walk/tring-circular/
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Total Distance: 10.9 Miles (17.5KM)
Total Ascent: 1050 Feet (320M)
Total Descent: 1050 Feet (320M)
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This 11.8 mile version of this walk is probably the best walk this walker has undertaken during Covid times and is an update to the 2010 video. The weather was good, with a cooling easterly breeze (some sound interference), and there was variety. The only slight downside is being in the flight path of Luton airport, even now, with few flights.
Setting out from St Peter and St Paul church, Little Gaddesden, the walker follows an anti-clockwise direction through mixed woodland, joining the Icknield Way Trail en route, to reach the 757 foot high Ivinghoe Beacon. There are some fine views to be had, on a good day.
A picnic lunch is taken at the quieter Gallows Hill, nearby.
Thereafter, The Ridgeway path takes the walker through open downland, via Pitstone Hill, to the wooded nature reserve at Aldbury Nowers. Shortly after that, it's on to the Hertfordshire Way and more open country for the walk into Aldbury.
The walker then ascends back into the Ashridge woodland, passes the National Trust cafe and visitor centre, and the Moneybury Hill bell barrow. The finale is more mixed woodland and a golf course before arriving back at the start.
A great walking area, at any time of the year, and highly recommended!
A delightful (even in the freezing fog!) 12.5 mile (per my pedometer) walk through the hills and woods of this Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire section of the Ridgeway. Part 1 concludes with lunch on a very foggy Ivinghoe Beacon.
Continuing on after lunch, this walk then takes the short cut through Ashridge Estate woodland to the Bridgewater Monument and the National Trust cafe. Then the walker takes the new 'bluebell variation and shortcut' through more woodland on Berkhampstead Common before descending across fields into Berkhampstead.