Pete's Walks- Hambleden, Marlow Common, Moorend Common (page 3 of 5)
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After another quarter of a mile or so, I turned right onto a bridleway along the drive to Mundaydean Farm. This dropped steeply downhill into a valley, where I turned left along Mundaydean Lane. After a while the lane became just a track between hedges, and at it's end I turned left and then immediately right as I entered Shillingridge Wood, following a path that initially ran just inside the edge of the wood with a field to my right.
The drive to Mundaydean Farm
The drive to Mundaydean Farm
Mundaydean Lane
Reaching the end of Mundaydean Lane
The path through Shillingridge Wood
I continued through the wood until on the far side I came to a fork. A bridleway (not shown on the OS map) went slightly right here, but I went straight on along the footpath, leaving the wood and turning right into a corner of a field to a stile or gate, then continuing along a path between a wire fence and a hedge (the bridleway was just the other side of the hedge) with a pleasant view over the paddocks near Bluey's Farm. The path then continued past a row of tall conifers, then turned slightly right and began to go uphill. I soon saw where a bridleway went left, crossing a sloping meadow and following a hedge on the left. Partway along the meadow, the bridleway went through a gate and was soon running along the eastern edge of Moor Wood.
The path through Shillingridge Wood
View near Bluey's Farm, from the edge of Shillingridge Wood
The path near Bluey's Farm
The bridleway through the meadow, near Bluey's Farm
The bridleway through the meadow, near Bluey's Farm (it goes through the gate on the left)
After a quarter of a mile or so, I came to a junction where footpaths went left and sharply right. I turned left and followed a track heading westward through Moor Wood - somewhere along here I spotted a Black-tailed Skimmer dragonfly on the path. After about a third of a mile the path left Moor Wood and crossed part of a meadow before continuing through Bottom Wood. On leaving this wood, the path went slightly right towards a gap in a hedge (where there were 'steps' and a wooden railing). I noticed a movement in the field of oil-seed rape on my left, and spotted a Roe Deer.
The bridleway through Moor Wood
The bridleway through Moor Wood
The start of the path going west through Moor Wood
Black-tailed Skimmer dragonfly
The meadow between Moor Wood and Bottom Wood
The path continuing through Moor Wood
The path continuing from Moor Wood (going up towards the hedgerow)
