Pete's Walks - Hambleden, Fawley, Stonor (page 6 of 7)
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I crossed a track in the valley bottom (at this point I was back on familiar territory), and followed the path through more of the wood on the other side of the small valley. The path left the wood at a stile and crossed a large empty pasture to reach another stile and a lane T-junction. Here I went straight on down the lane ahead of me for about a quarter of a mile, then took a bridleway forking left at Upper Woodend Farm.
The path rising through Gussetts Wood, after crossing a bridleway
The path rising through Gussetts Wood
The path continuing from Gussetts Wood
The lane to Upper Woodend Farm (I've only just noticed on the OS map that this is the same lane as the first one I followed through Fawley earlier)
Where the bridleway leaves the lane at Upper Woodend Farm
The bridleway started down a concrete farm drive, with the farmhouse on my right, then continued for almost half a mile between hedgerows to reach Great Wood (the same one I'd been through near the start of the walk). Here the path turned slightly left as it slowly descended over the course of about a quarter of a mile to reach a path junction at the bottom of a valley. Here the bridleway turned right along a roughly-surfaced track, but I went straight on along a footpath.
The bridleway from Upper Woodend Farm
The bridleway from Upper Woodend Farm
The bridleway from Upper Woodend Farm
The bridleway continuing through Great Wood
The bridleway continuing through Great Wood
The bridleway continuing through Great Wood
The path rose up the other side of the valley, quite steeply for a few yards. After three or four hundred yards a waymark post on the left indicated a path junction, where I turned left. This path, still in Great Wood I think, soon reached the top of the slope, and soon passed close to a field on my left. I then went on over a surfaced drive, the path now following a similar drive and beginning to slowly descend through what was now Barn Wood. Very soon I was right on the edge of the wood, with fields just to my right.
The path through Great Wood, after I left the bridleway
The path through Great Wood
The next path through Great Wood, after I turned left
Further along that path
The start of the path through Barn Wood
The path through Barn Wood