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Chequers ~ Pulpit Hill & Pulpit Woods ~ Lower Cadsden

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Route 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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