Pete's Walks- Great Kimble and Bacombe (page 2 of 4)
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.
Across the road I went down the drive to a property (named Dirtywood Farm on the OS map, but the sign at the start of the drive said Hampden Chase). The footpath now goes left along a hedgerow round the garden of this property, before continuing gently uphill to reach Widnell Wood. After a few yards along a track, the path forked half-right, heading uphill at an angle through the trees. Towards the top of the slope I came to a path junction, where I turned very sharply left.
The drive to Dirtywood Farm (or Hampden Chase)
The path continuing from Dirtywood Farm
Looking back from the edge of Widnell Wood
The path, after it forks right just inside Widnell Wood
The path continued through the wood, very gradually descending and drawing closer to the edge of the wood on my left. After almost half a mile I came to a path T-junction where I turned right. After a short distance the path turned left, then within a few yards I turned right (the path going straight on here is not on the map and presumably not a right of way). I was now going uphill through Hengrove Wood, and I soon went right (or half-right) at another path junction. The path continued uphill through the wood, until it ended close to the end of an old lane (from Buckmoorend to Little Hampden)
The path after I turned sharply left in Widnell Wood
Further along the same path
The path uphill through Hengrove Wood
The path uphill through Hengrove Wood
I went a few yards right to the end of this old lane, where a total of six paths or bridleways meet. I took the first path on the left - for the first few yards it was actually a bridleway (part of the South Bucks Way), but then I turned right on to a public footpath. This initially ran through Chisley Wood, with a field close by on my right. Further on the wood becomes Goodmerhill Wood, and eventually the path drops downhill to a five-way junction. Here I went straight on, gently uphill at first, through Fugsdon Wood until I reached a lane.
The end of the old lane from Buckmoorend to Little Hampden
Near the start of the path through Chisley Wood, close to a field on the right
The path through Chisley Wood
The path through Chisley Wood
The path after going straight on at the five-way junction
The path continuing through Fugsdon Wood
The path continuing through Fugsdon Wood