Pete's Walks - West Wycombe and Moorend Common (page 3 of 6)
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I soon reached a field corner, where I went through a gate and followed a permissive path between hedges, running parallel to a lane on my left. I continued to reach a junction where the lane met a minor road, where I turned left along the road. After a short distance I reached Moussells Wood on my right where I continued along the road rather than take a footpath into the wood (thus starting the third section of this route that was new to me in this direction). After about another quarter of a mile, I took a second footpath on the right that started along a track into the wood.
The permissive path next to the lane
The permissive path next to the lane
The start of the section along the minor road
The minor road, running past Moussells Wood on the right
The minor road, running past Moussells Wood on the right
The start of the path through Moussells Wood
After one or two hundred yards, white arrows indicated where the path turned left from the track. The path was then more or less level for a while, then rose steadily uphill through the wood. I went straight on at a path crossroads (the crossing path is the one I usually follow through this one - for some reason the OS map shows this path crossroads as two separate junctions one or two hundred yards apart), the path soon leaving the wood and running between garden boundaries to reach a private (or at least unmade) road in Little Frieth. Here I went more or less straight on to reach the lane through Little Frieth, where I turned left.
The path through Moussells Wood just after it turned left
The path rising uphill through Moussells Wood
The path rising uphill through Moussells Wood
Where I went straight on at the path crossing
The private road at Little Frieth
I followed the lane, which immediately turned left, for two or three hundred yards, then took a footpath on the right. This ran between a hedge on my left and a fence. Just as I was reaching a metal kissing-gate, I spotted a herd of about twenty Fallow Deer in the meadow ahead of me. I managed to get a few photos through the branches of the hedge, then they moved into the next field. I entered the meadow and followed the path straight on to the far side, where a short drive took me to the road through Frieth, almost opposite the church.
The road through Little Frieth
The path from Little Frieth to Frieth
The path approaching Frieth
Frieth church