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Rambling yet again
ANorth Crawley
n easy and shorter circular walk, clockwise from North Crawley Institute car park. Duration: circa 3 miles about 1.25 hours, mostly at with a few stiles at the start.
North Crawley is reached from Newport Pagnell or Cran eld. There are two pubs for refreshments in North Crawley. Parking is available in the Institute or St Firmins Church car park.
1a 1b
1c 1d
2a 2b
2c 2d
2e 2f
2g 2h
1. The walk starts in the Institute car park and sets off diagonally right across the playing elds, (or if there are games on proceed around the right hand perimeter) to a gate along the right hand side of the eld on to Pound Lane. Turn right here and in a few metres left through a kissing gate (the way mark sign has gone missing here) in to a eld, follow the path to a stile on the left at the far end of the eld, then keeping left there is a stile to the left through a hedge at the far end of this eld.
2. Once through turn right and proceed round the edge of the eld with the hedge on your right, turn left at the bottom corner and shortly through a gap in the hedge on your right. Proceed diagonally to your left across the rst eld to a stile and then diagonally to the left to a further stile that leads through a small woodland. Leave the woodlands by an exit on the right in a hedge waymarked into a large open eld with a long spinney opposite, head across the eld to the left of this spinney and then right into a broad track with another spinney on your left, all waymarked.
3. At the end of the track, cross the eld to a gap in the hedge at Dollars Grove Farm, turn right on to a lane and follow the lane down to the road at East End and then turn right again down to the junction with Broadmead, this is now a bit overgrown. Turn right in to Broadmead and keeping to the right, follow the raised path by the old ford.
4. Where the road turns left there is a path off to the right through a gate to the left of a pretty cottage in to the eld that heads towards Crawley Grange. At a cross ways of paths by the trees turn left to where the path goes over a tubular metal stile in to a small woodlands, this path leads through small woods, elds and the back of houses to the main road through North Crawley.
5. Cross the road in to a signposted eld via a kissing gate, keep to the right of the eld and at the far end go through the gate and along a path at the end, then turn left in to Cheques Lane, this soon turns right in to another path to the side of the church, passing very old and interesting properties. Follow this path through the church car park to the road and then turn right back to the institute car park.
60 Phonebox Magazine | September 2016