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歩いて二十分ほどのところにある川原です。

It's a riverbank about twenty minutes away by foot.

I have a couple of questions with the usage of 歩いて here:

  1. The usage of the te-form without an auxiliary verb (e.g. 歩いていく) or another verb eventually finishing the clause feels strange. Is there another verb implied but omitted, i.e.「歩いて二十分ほど **かかる** ところにある川原です。」?
  2. It also seems strange for the te-form to be something like a conditional form here (if we walk it's twenty minutes). Would 「歩けば二十分ほどのところにある川原です。」 also work?
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grammar て-form conditionals
te-form without a final verb and its usage as a conditional
歩いて here simply means "by walking" just as バスで would mean "by bus".
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I believe that one misconception on your part is that you seem to think that
there are two attributive clauses (歩いて二十分ほどの) and (歩いて二十分ほどのところにある), while
there is in fact only one: the latter.

One easy thing to do in order to understand where subordinate clauses start
and end is to remove the parts you think constitute subordinate clauses. Then
check if these parts form grammatically correct sentence on their own, and
whether or not the rest of the original sentence remains grammatically correct
even with these parts taken out.

The part 歩いて二十分ほどの can't form a grammatically correct sentence on its own.
With that taken out, the remaining part of the original sentence will be:
ところにある河原です, which doesn't make any sense either. If we however try to split
the sentence at 歩いて二十分ほどのところにある, we'll be left with two parts which constitute
grammatically correct sentences on their own.

To answer your question: There is no omitted verb in the original sentence.

As for your second question, 歩けば二十分ほどのところにある川原です is grammatically correct.
There is a slight difference in nuance between this sentence and the original
one; This sentence emphasizes the fact that 20 minutes is how long it will
take to travel _on foot_ (in contrast to other means of transportation).The
original sentence contains no such indication, but is simply a statement of
how long it takes.
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