Pete's Walks - Wigginton and Drayton Wood (page 2 of 3)
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I continued northwestwards along the path through the wood, passing a scout group coming the other way. I went straight on at two junctions where paths came in from the left. On leaving Drayton Wood the path ran between fences with paddocks either side to reach Shire Lane (which I'd crossed earlier).
The path through Drayton Wood
The path through Drayton Wood
The path through Drayton Wood>
The path leaving Drayton Wood
Across the lane I continued through a small wood, then the path continued across a corner of a ploughed field to a projecting hedge corner, where it continued alongside the hedge. It then passed the end of a tree belt (which follows part of the course of an ancient earhwork named Grim's Ditch). Beyond this the path went half-right across another ploughed field to reach a track called Brown's Lane, which I followed left to reach a lane junction in the hamlet of Hastoe.
The small wood the other side of Shire Lane
The path approaching a section of Grim's Ditch (in the tree belt)
The path continuing from Grim's Ditch to Brown's Lane
Brown's Lane, Hastoe
I went a few yards left, then went down a long drive on the other side (a public byway, one of many around here). At the end of this drive, public rights of way forked either side of a house and I followed the right fork, only to almost immediately turn right and then just as quickly turn half-left, now in Grove Wood (there was no waymark or other sign at this last junction). The path ran through the wood for a few hundred yards, then merged with another path coming in sharply from my left. I soon then reached a point in the wood where a section had been thinned out on my left, giving a nice view out to the Vale of Aylesbury.
The path after it merged with another one coming in from my left
The byway in Hastoe, heading towards Grove Wood
The path in Grove Wood after I turned right and then immediately half-left
Further along the same path
Further along that path, now in Stubbing's Wood
Looking left from the path, out to the Vale of Aylesbury