(S/E) With your back to the Bull and Butcher turn right and walk down the lane for 400m to the first lane on the right, Dolesden Lane, and with Watery Lane ahead, take the signed footpath between these two lanes. It is a gap in the hedge with a sign opposite, but partly hidden. Follow the grassy path, initially following a hedge on the left, then pass through the gap in the hedge, and at a junction of paths before a house, cross the style and take the permissive path.
(1) When you reach a road turn right into Skirmett and then take the signed footpath on the left, just before The Frog public house. Go through a gate by a bungalow and take the path to the right to reach a lane.
(2) Turn left along the lane then take the signed bridleway on the right, up to and through woodland following arrows, and ignoring signed footpaths to the left. Continue ahead passing the Old Sawmill, to reach a lane near St Katherine’s Parmoor.
(3) Turn left and cross the lane to walk on the signed grassy path along the edge of the lane. Just past the drive to Parmoor Park Farm turn right on a signed footpath leading through a hedge to a farm yard. Continue with a hedge on the left, then just past the barn turn right through a small gate and follow the path with another hedge on the left.
(4) Turn left at the way marked path into Frieth, passing the church, to a road. Take the signed path opposite and cross an open area. Continue to the lane, then turn left and follow the lane uphill to Little Frieth. Take the footpath on the right, by the post box, initially along an unmade road, and then as the road swings right, continue ahead into woodland along a narrow path between a hedge and a fence.
(5) At a junction of paths by a waymarker post, turn left and follow the woodland path to a gate.
(6) Turn right along a broad track and continue along the track passing a large pile of logs and through a gate into an open field, presenting an excellent view. Cross the open hillside and enter Fingest Wood. Follow the path in Fingest Wood downhill to a gate where there is a wonderful view of Fingest and its Norman church. Go through the gate, and continue downhill towards Fingest.
(7) Turn left at the lane and walk past the Chequers public house on the left and St Bartholomew’s Church on the right to a signed path on the right. Take this path up to a path junction, then turn left and follow a path through woodland.
(8) Cross a lane, taking the path opposite into a further stretch of woodland. The path emerges into an open field, follow the path across a field to a gate with the Cobstone Windmill visible on the hillside above and to the right.
(9) Turn left through a gate and take the track through another gate to emerge back in Turville. Go left along the lane to return to Bull and Butcher.(S/E)