Pete's Walks- Lanes of Little Missenden (page 2 of 7)
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.
The road I now followed through part of Holmer Green was actually the southern end of Penfold Lane. After less than a quarter of a mile (almost opposite a street named Winter's Way) I turned left down a track, passing a couple of cottages on my right - this was the start of Kingstreet Lane (which I walked in the other direction last week). There was then quite a long flat stretch with hedges either side, the only views available being when I passed field gates either side. The lane then dropped slightly downhill between Haleacre Wood on my left and Coleman's Wood to my right.
The road through Holmer Green (Penfold Lane, which starts in Little Missenden)
Near the start of the bridleway name Kingstreet Lane
Kingstreet Lane
Kingstreet Lane
Kingstreet Lane
Kingstreet Lane
Kingstreet Lane
Kingstreet Lane
As I left the woods, there were attractive views either side. The 'lane' then dropped steadily downhill between tall overhanging hedgerows. At the bottom of the slope, the lane turned right and then left. When I then came to a gap in the hedgerows either side, I turned right onto a footpath, part of the South Bucks Way. In the next field corner, I went straight on along the other end of Penfold Lane, on the edge of Little Missenden. After a while the lane appeared to turn left - in fact the OS map shows that I was at a T-junction with Beamond End Lane. If I'd followed it left into the village, I would have soon reached a junction close to where I'd started (just to the left).
View towards Little Missenden from Kingstreet Lane
Kingstreet Lane
View left from Kingstreet Lane - you can see the path I took from Little Missenden going across the fields
Kingstreet Lane
The path after I turned right from Kingstreet Lane
Penfold Lane (again!), heading into Little Missenden
Looking left down Beamonds End Lane (I turned right and went the opposite way) - the old house at the end of the street is the Manor House, the church where I started is just to its left