Pete's Walks - Walk from Maidensgrove (page 3 of 6)
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I soon went right at a path T-junction, then after maybe a 100 yards or so the public footpath turned left (a clear path continued straight on, but this is not an official right of way). After a few hundred yards I reached a path T-junction where I went right, and at the end of this path I turned left onto a bridleway. Unusually some of this section was through an area of Rhododendrons, though much of it has been cut back since I first walked here. I'd already seen two or three Silver-washed Fritillary butterflies in the wood, and along here I saw another one that I managed to photograph. I passed a pond on the left and shortly after the bridleway left Holly Grove, continuing along a track that passed a cottage on the left.
The path just after entering Holly Grove
The path in Holly Grove after I turned right at a path T-junction
The path through Holly Grove after it turned left
The path in Holly Grove after I turned right again
The bridleway through Holly Grove after I turned left
The bridleway through Holly Grove
The bridleway just after it leaves Holly Grove
At a crossroads of tracks and drives I turned right along the drive to Merrimoles House. When I reached a T-junction of drives just after this big house, I took a path that continued straight on through Highmoor Common Wood. At a path junction after several hundred yards (white arrows on tree) I turned right, fairly soon crossing a public byway in the woods, and continuing straight on along what the map now shows as a bridleway. After a while this turned left, right and left again to reach a main road (A4130) just east of Nettlebed. Across the road I took a lane leading through Catslip and on a few hundred yards to Crocker End.
The drive to Merrimoles House
The path through Highmoor Common Wood
The path through Highmoor Common Wood
The path after I turned right in Highmoor Common Wood
The bridleway through Lowercommon Wood
The lane after crossing the A4130, heading to Catslip
The lane continuing to Crocker End