Pete's Walks- Wigginton and Drayton Wood (page 1 of 3)
If you are considering walking this route yourself, please see my disclaimer. You may also like to see these notes about the maps and GPX files.
I did this walk of about 6 miles on Saturday, 23rd July, 2016. This was a repeat of a walk I've done a few times now, from Wigginton to Drayton Wood, returning through Hastoe and Tring Park. I had intended to do a 15-mile walk somewhere else but changed my mind when I saw how hot and humid the weather was going to be - I decided to do two shorter walks on successive days instead.
I parked in Wigginton by the playing fields (Grid Reference SP 938100), and started walking about 10.20am. I turned right from the entrance to the car park and followed the road for a quarter of a mile or so until it left the village. Just past a traffic-calming barrier, I turned right onto a footpath that crossed a long thin pasture (the cattle were sensibly hiding in the shade of trees over to my right) - the kissing-gate on the far side is hidden behind a holly bush but the path to it is usually perfectly clear. Beyond this gate I continued half-left (another path went right here) across a field containing the dried-out remains of a crop that I didn't recognise. The path then crossed a corner of a meadow, before continuing through another large meadow to reach Roundhill Wood.
The road out of Wigginton
The footpath across the long, thin pasture
The path continuing towards Roundhill Wood
The path continuing towards Roundhill Wood
I turned right along another path running just inside the wood. After passing a couple of fields to my right I had the wood on both sides. Further on I crossed a lane and entered a wood called High Scrubs - the path here was now open to the sky, and there were more conifers here than there'd been in Roundhill Wood. On the far side of High Scrubs I crossed a byway, and on leaving the wood I followed a hedge on my left through another meadow (there are horse jumps in this hedge, so beware if you hear hooves thundering towards you - though I've never seen anyone jumping or even riding here).
The path through Roundhill Wood
The path through Roundhill Wood
The path through Roundhill Wood
The path through Roundhill Wood
The path through Roundhill Wood
The path through High Scrubs
The path through High Scrubs
The path continuing to Shire Lane
I then went a few yards left along Shire Lane (this part of it is still part of he boundary between Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire) before taking a path on the other side, beside a property named Montana. After a while I was in Drayton Wood, with some paddocks to my left where I was amused to see some horses disguised as Zebras!
The start of the footpath running next to Montana
Further along the same footpath
Horses pretending to be Zebras!