Pete's Walks - Maidensgrove and Turville Heath (page 2 of 4)
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The bridleway ran through the wood for about a third of a mile, following a valley bottom. Soon after leaving the wood, it curved right and soon reached Turville Park Farm. The bridleway continued straight on here, still following the valley bottom. After a few hundred yards a white arrow on a tree showed where the bridleway switched to the left of a hedgerow.
The bridleway through Fire Wood
The bridleway through Fire Wood/p>
The bridleway through Fire Wood
The bridleway through Fire Wood
The bridleway continuing from Fire Wood to Turville Park Farm
Approaching Turville Park Farm
The bridleway continuing from Turville Park Farm
The bridleway continuing from Turville Park Farm
The bridleway continuing from Turville Park Farm
A short while further on, a footpath crossed the bridleway, and I turned left to follow the path uphill through an arable field. At the top of the slope there was a nice view to the right, towards Stonor in its valley. The path continued for a few hundred yards between fences and hedges. When I reached a path junction, I forked half-left through an old metal kissing-gate, cutting across the corner of a large pasture and then crossing a smaller pasture containing some Jacob's Sheep. The path then crossed a meadow, or area of long grass, next to a house (to my left), before going through a couple of gates and following the house's drive to a road junction at Turville Heath.
The start of the path to Turville Heath, from where I turned left from the bridleway
View right to Stonor and the Stonor valley from the path to Turville Heath
The path to Turville Heath, where I forked left
The path to Turville Heath
The path approaching Turville Heath
I went straight on down a lane starting on the other side of the junction. Just after passing a small car park and a drive on the left, I entered what was new territory for me, continuing down the lane to reach a junction. I took the left fork here for a few yards, before taking a footpath on the right that entered the wooded Summer Heath.
The lane through Turville Heath (you can see a car at the small car park on the left)
The lane through Turville Heath
The start of the path through Summer Heath
The path through Summer Heath