Pete's Walks - Little Missenden and Knotty Green (page 3 of 6)
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Eventually the path left the wood and went through a stable yard. It continued straight on between wooden fences, with a drive to the left and a paddock on my right, before turning right to run between a hedge and the same paddock. This brought me back into Hodgemoor Woods where I went more or less straight on (if anything fractionally left). After about a third of a mile through the woods I came to a path junction, where I turned left and soon left the wood at a bend in Bottom Lane.
The path round the paddock (it turns right, alongside the trees)
The path along the southern edge of Hodgemoor Woods
The path along the southern edge of Hodgemoor Woods
The bridleway after I turned left in Hodgemoor Woods
I went straight on down Bottom Lane for maybe a quarter of a mile, then turned right onto a bridleway that ran between hedges either side. Eventually this dropped downhill through Bottom Wood, and at the foot of the slope I turned left at a path crossroads. I now followed a bridleway along the valley bottom through the wood and then on past a field to reach another wood, Blue Cross Wood. Here I immediately turned right at a path crossroads, following a broad path uphill through the wood. The path then went diagonally across a grassy field (passing a solitary tree) to reach another wood, called Birchen Spring. The path continued through this wood between fences either side, to reach the A355 main road.
Bottom Lane, just before I turned right
The bridleway going west from Bottom Lane
The path through Bottom Wood, after I turned left
The path continuing from Bottom Wood to Blue Circle Wood
The path after I turned right in Blue Circle Wood
The path continuing from Blue Circle Wood to Birchen Spring
The path continuing through Birchen Spring
It took a couple of minutes to cross the busy road, then I went through a metal kissing-gate and for a short way between walls either side before joining a tree lined drive (the OS map shows it goes to a house called The Grange). After a few hundred yards the drive turned right, now running between hedges and trees either side. After a while, the footpath forked right from the drive, crossing an arable field. On the far side I turned left, and followed a path across a similar field to reach Brown's Wood.
The drive to The Grange
The drive to The Grange, after it turns right
The path continuing after forking left from the drive to The Grange
The path after I turned left, heading to Brown's Wood