Pete's Walks - Little Missenden, Misbourne Valley, Hodgemoor Woods (page 3 of 5)
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At the next junction I turned right, leaving Hodgemoor Woods at a bend in Bottom Lane where I went straight on. After maybe a quarter of a mile, I took a bridleway on the right, which ran for a few hundred yards between hedges - I was relieved that it wasn't as overgrown as last time I came this way. Eventually the bridleway dropped steeply downhill into Bottom Wood. I followed it through the wood, and then on along a track to reach a main road (the A355 from Amersham to Beaconsfield).
Bottom Lane
The bridleway after I turned right from Bottom Lane
The bridleway after I turned right from Bottom Lane
The bridleway descending into Bottom Wood
Bottom Wood
Just before the bridleway leaves Bottom Wood
The bridleway continuing from Bottom Wood
Across the road the bridleway carried on down a long drive. After about half a mile, just before it reached a property named Wood Cottage, the bridleway went right (a path continued straight on), running between a hedge and a fence - this was overgrown in places so I had to resort to following the edge of the field on my right, where there was a clearly well-used path. In the valley bottom the bridleway passed through part of Great Beards Wood (I think), then continued uphill between hedges and then past a small wood on my left. At a field corner it went slightly left, and I now had the recently renovated Ongar Hill Farm ahead and to my right.
The bridleway along the drive to Wood Cottage
The bridleway along the drive to Wood Cottage
The bridleway along the drive to Wood Cottage
The start of the bridleway going right from just before Wood Cottage
The bridleway going right from Wood Cottage
The bridleway going right from Wood Cottage
The bridleway continuing through Great Beards Wood
The bridleway continuing to Ongar Hill Farm
The bridleway continuing to Ongar Hill Farm
Approaching Ongar Hill Farm