The track to Exted

I'm back-blipping two photos from my Sunday afternoon walk. I enjoyed trying a new (to me) path - it's in fact a very old track from just outside the village to the hilltop hamlet of Exted, which may once have been as important a route as the present day lane up the ridge from the other end of the village. From the edge of the village, I descended a steep flight of steps in the hillside, then crossed two fields. The main photo was taken in the second field, looking along the Exted valley. I'm not sure what was grown there last year to give the dry growth underfoot such a pink-tinged tone, but I liked its combination with the rich greens and the cloudy sky. I was about to join the raised track which runs alongside the hedgerow, and comes from an old farm at the side of the valley. It's a fairly substantial structure which I want to look up on the old OS maps; I wonder how far back it goes. Just off the right of the photo, the track climbs steeply up the wooded hillside to the ridge. The path was very rocky and stony, in a sunken gully, and a pipe of some kind ran down it. Several old trees and huge growths of ivy had fallen across it; some had been cut through or moved, but in places I still had to scramble round obstructions. The extra gives some impression of one section. I emerged onto the lane at the top of the ridge, where huge drifts of snowdrops nestled in a hollow, probably formerly the site of small-scale quarrying or chalk extraction but sadly more recently used for fly-tipping. I could have continued to the very old farm whose owners also maintain and repair our cars and specialise in renovating old VW campers and Beatles. I returned to the village on the grassy path which runs behind the hedge alongside the lane. I had excellent views of the poultry farm enclosures, with a variety of geese and ducks, but the double fence made it impossible to photograph them without obstructions. The alpacas were again almost invisible at the bottom of the field. 

Next, I need to download three days' photos and process them; and I'm again struggling to keep up with browsing and commenting. Thank you to those who are so much better at this than I am, I always appreciate comments and wish I reciprocated more regularly.