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Time:Roughly one hour to the roadside car park at Cadsden from Coombe Hill...
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The best
way to make an all day ride out of the Cadsden area is to start somewhere like
Coombe Hill (and of course there is a car park) and ride the local tracks and
the south bucks way down to Chequers. About 200 yards from the main entrance to
Chequers is a bridleway – this is where your heading for…
(IF RIDING FROM COOMBE HILL - When you
get to the ‘crossroads’ on the South Bucks Way turn right and follow the track
down to the road. This track is easily recognisable as the flint and chalk
rutted track. Follow this and you exit through a farm and you are at one of the
nasty corners running around Chequers…)
Standing at
the road side, if you look left at the field that runs parallel to the road you
will see a bridleway sign and a track running off towards Chequers main
entrance. Take this track through the field.
This track
runs parallel to the road round past Chequers main gate. It runs straight
through the field and then curves round the to left into a small wooded area
right next to the roadside. It exits at the roadside. At the roadside you will
see another bridleway on the other side of the road dead ahead – cross over to
this bridleway.
This is
where we want you to start… This is the bridleway that takes you to the
Whiteleaf and Cadsden areas.
The track
here is a very slight incline, but goes on for ages, so don’t get into a super
low gear too quick or you will end up stranded! You cant stray off this track as
it just does up hill in a straight line past a few bombholes with Chequers on
your right and a field full of sheep on your left.
Follow this
track for what seems ages and it starts to curve left then right, then left and
right again, before a final left bend where you end up at the ‘Bridleway
Junctions’.
Here there
are bridleways to your left and right, a footpath (inc stile) dead ahead and
another bridleway dead ahead slightly on your left – take this bridleway.
This
bridleway takes you down to Lower Cadsden (Hobbs Hill) - its
a great tight and twisty singletrack section that heads up and down for about
10mins of riidng. At the end of this track you run down a final
chalk/flint chute into a small unmanned car park at the roadside
(just up the road from the Plough Pub at Cadsden)
Here there
are several bridleways, all of which are signposted, several of which all link
up and create laps, all in the areas of Hobb's Hill, Giles Wood, Pulpit Wood,
Sergeants Wood, Whiteleaf Woods etc
When you have exited the singletrack via
this chalk chute you have the roadside car park in Cadsden on your right. You
will see a heavily used bridleway dead ahead running down towards P.Risborough -
take this - its in several sections divided by gates but just head down and down
until eventually you end up popping out between a farm complex - beware of the
dogs! At this farm just follow the singletrack road down to the main road
heading into Princes Risborough....
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