{"id":"69847948533dbb4b73118859","title":"Walk 416 Hambleden Turville Fingest And Frieth","path":"walks/scrapbook/by-year/2020/volume-31-jan-to-mar-2020/walk-416-hambleden-turville-fingest-and-frieth","contentMarkdown":"# 🥾 Walk 416 - Hambleden, Turville, Fingest and Frieth\n\nSunday 2nd February saw twelve of us (including a few from the BW 20s & 30s group and a gentleman from the Oxford group) plus a dog gathering at Hambleden for a 12 mile walk.\n\nWe've done a number of walks from Hambleden over the years, but this is the first one I've been on where we started by heading south-west into Ridge Wood (crossing Skirmett Road). This woodland path then took us north-west and uphill for a couple of miles before it opened out into fields at Upper Woodend Farm.\n\n![Heading down to Southend through Gussetts Wood.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume31/images/gussetts_wood.jpg)\n\nContinuing onwards and upwards, we reach Southend - not the seaside town in Essex but a tiny hamlet, high up in the Chiltern hills. It was a steep downhill followed by a steep uphill to Turville Court and then a slightly more gentle downhill to Turville village itself, overlooked as it is by the windmill on Turville Hill (as seen in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang).\n\nNext, we passed through the hamlet of Fingest and stopped for lunch on a hillside overlooking Fingest and windmill on Turville Hill, with Fingest Wood behind us.\n\n![The windmill on Turville Hill.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume31/images/turville_windmill.jpg)\n\nAfter lunch it was more uphill and downhill through woodland to reach Frieth, where we stopped for a drink at a very old-fashioned country pub, The Prince Albert. We sat outside as the tiny pub was packed inside. Then it was back through Frieth, south to Parmoor, followed by a long descent to Pheasant's Hill before eventually returning to Hambleden. See our route on Google Maps.\n\nAlthough the weather was mostly overcast, there wasn't any rain and the views still looked good. The walk had taken nearly six hours, but as we'd set off soon after 10am, we were back by 4pm, with daylight to spare. The walk was quite a work-out, too, with around 700m (2,300ft) of ascent in total.\n\n![On our way from Southend to Turville Court.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume31/images/southend.jpg)\n\n*Thank you to Keith for leading this energetic walk.*\n\n## 📸 Back to Volume 31\n\nReturn to volume index","contentHtml":"

🥾 Walk 416 - Hambleden, Turville, Fingest and Frieth

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Sunday 2nd February saw twelve of us (including a few from the BW 20s & 30s group and a gentleman from the Oxford group) plus a dog gathering at Hambleden for a 12 mile walk.

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We've done a number of walks from Hambleden over the years, but this is the first one I've been on where we started by heading south-west into Ridge Wood (crossing Skirmett Road). This woodland path then took us north-west and uphill for a couple of miles before it opened out into fields at Upper Woodend Farm.

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Continuing onwards and upwards, we reach Southend - not the seaside town in Essex but a tiny hamlet, high up in the Chiltern hills. It was a steep downhill followed by a steep uphill to Turville Court and then a slightly more gentle downhill to Turville village itself, overlooked as it is by the windmill on Turville Hill (as seen in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang).

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Next, we passed through the hamlet of Fingest and stopped for lunch on a hillside overlooking Fingest and windmill on Turville Hill, with Fingest Wood behind us.

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After lunch it was more uphill and downhill through woodland to reach Frieth, where we stopped for a drink at a very old-fashioned country pub, The Prince Albert. We sat outside as the tiny pub was packed inside. Then it was back through Frieth, south to Parmoor, followed by a long descent to Pheasant's Hill before eventually returning to Hambleden. See our route on Google Maps.

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Although the weather was mostly overcast, there wasn't any rain and the views still looked good. The walk had taken nearly six hours, but as we'd set off soon after 10am, we were back by 4pm, with daylight to spare. The walk was quite a work-out, too, with around 700m (2,300ft) of ascent in total.

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Thank you to Keith for leading this energetic walk.

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