Ridgeway concluded

Back on the original west to east direction to finish ! Final 11mls!

Wendover is an attractive market town and has an old coaching inn , The Red Lion Pub and 19C Clock tower . South past the 12 / 14C St Mary the Virgin church and UP the hill and heading North East , through Hale Wood and then we enter Hertfordshire !
Past Tring Park , a Norman grassland containing a Wren Manor House .
Tring is attractive with church, market house and odd Cottages and onto Wiggington .
Across Akerman street (the old Roman road) and across the 1929 Grand Union canal . High on the hill above is the Bridgewater Monument from 1832 and dedicated to ‘the father of the inland waterway’ - not a climb for today!
Through Aldbury Nowers nature reserve and up through the mud to Pitstone Hill - for a great view !
On towards over some dry green grassland toward the end and a final climb up to the Beacon on the hill - built on an old Iron Age fort - with a great panorama: reservoirs , Aylesbury vale and sometimes the Whipsnade Lion but not visible today but Mentmore Towers is oddly clear !
A good look back west to where I started .... the escarpment ridge is visible !
So down to the village , past the windmill (possibly the oldest in England from 1627), the Church of St Mary the Virgin from
13C with some crazy relics and odd wooden headed pews!
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