Pete's Walks - Wigginton and Drayton Wood (page 2 of 3)
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The path more or less levelled out where the hedge ended, continuing between green fields to reach a corner of Stubbing's Wood. I carried on beside the wood on my right for a while, ignoring the first place the path entered the wood and then going into the wood by a waymark post. I immediately turned left at a path junction, and soon passed a section of wood on my right that had been thinned out, giving glimpses through the trees towards the Vale of Aylesbury. On reaching a narrow fork in the path I kept left, this path gradually turning left and eventually bringing me to a path T-junction with an edge of the wood in front of me. I turned right here, almost immediately leaving the wood by a cottage, where I turned left and followed a drive to reach a road in the hamlet of Hastoe.
The path to Stubbing's Wood
Another view back, towards Ivinghoe Beacon
The path continuing alongside Stubbing's Wood
The path through Stubbing's Wood
The path through Stubbing's Wood, after I kept left at a fork
The drive at Hastoe
I went a few yards left to a road junction where I turned right along a track called Browns Lane. After a couple of hundred yards or so I took a path that went half-right, going diagonally across a large arable field. In the far corner I went half-left, past the end of a tree belt that ran along the course of part of an ancient earthwork called Grim's Ditch, and then continued beside a hedge on my right. When this hedge turned right, I went half-right across another green arable field to reach a small wood with much Holly in it. Beyond the wood I crossed Shire Lane and continued along a path between paddock fences (this was almost impassably muddy and very unpleasant) to reach Drayton Wood. I soon came to a path junction where I went straight on (or slightly left) and again went straight on at the next junction where a path again went right.
Browns Lane, Hastoe
The start of the path going half-right from Browns Lane (Grim's Ditch is in the trees on the left)
The path continuing from Grim's Ditch
The path from Shire Lane to Drayton Wood
The path through Drayton Wood