Pete's Walks - Wigginton and Drayton Wood (page 2 of 3)
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I turned right along the bridleway, which ran between a hedge and more of Drayton Wood on my right. Afer two or three hundred yards I went over a stile on my right and started to follow a path through the wood. I continued northwestwards along the path through the wood, going straight on at two junctions where paths came in from the left. On leaving Drayton Wood the path ran between fences with paddocks either side to reach Shire Lane (which I'd crossed earlier).
The bridleway along the edge of Drayton Wood (it becomes Little Twye Road, and goes to Buckland Common)
The path through Drayton Wood
The path through Drayton Wood
The path leaving Drayton Wood
Across the lane I continued through a small wood (loads of Holly here), then the path continued across a corner of a corn field to a projecting hedge corner, where it continued alongside the hedge. It then passed the left end of a tree belt (which follows part of the course of an ancient earthwork named Grim's Ditch). Beyond this the path went half-right across another corn field to reach a track called Brown's Lane, which I followed left to reach a lane junction in the hamlet of Hastoe.
The small wood the other side of Shire Lane
The path approaching a section of Grim's Ditch (in the tree belt)
The path continuing from Grim's Ditch to Brown's Lane
Brown's Lane, Hastoe
I went a few yards left, then went down a long drive on the other side (a public byway, one of many around here). At the end of this drive, public rights of way forked either side of a house and I followed the right fork, only to immediately turn right as I entered Grove Wood and then just as quickly turn half-left. The path ran through the wood for a few hundred yards, then merged with another path coming in sharply from my left. I then quickly reached a point in the wood where a section had been thinned out on my left, so I had glimpses of the Vale of Aylesbury out through the trees.
The byway in Hastoe, heading towards Grove Wood
The path through Grove Wood, after I turned right and then almost immediately forked left
The path after merging with a path coming in sharply from the right
Further along the same path
Further along that path, now in Stubbing's Wood (I think)