Pete's Walks- Cadmore End and Idlecombe Wood (page 2 of 4)
I now varied from the route I walked last April, by following the lane out of the village instead of taking a footpath on the right just past the church. But I didn't go far down the lane before I took a bridleway on the left. This went through a belt of trees and continued alongside a tall hedgerow on my left, beside a large arable field. After a while the bridleway (and hedge) turned half-right. When it did so a second time, I was on new territory as previously I've always taken a footpath going more or less straight on here. I now had Churchfield Wood on my left. After a few hundred yards I reached the field corner where the bridleway entered the wood and turned left. It was now a long steady plod up through the trees.
The lane out of Turville, where I turned left onto a bridleway
The bridleway from Turville
The bridleway continuing alongside Churchfield Wood
The bridleway entering Churchfield Wood
The bridleway continuing uphill through Churchfield Wood
The bridleway continuing uphill through Churchfield Wood<
The bridleway continuing uphill through Churchfield Wood
Near the top of the slope I came to what appeared to be a T-junction, but actually the bridleway goes left here while I took a footpath going right. This immediately turned right (a private track continues ahead), staying fairly level (the map shows the path is roughly on the boundary between Churchfield Wood and Idlecombe Wood, on my left). After a quarter of a mile or so I turned left at a path junction (the path I'd been on turns half-left immediately after this junction). I was now on one of my favourite paths in the Chilterns, which continued fairly level through Idlecombe Wood, with quite a steep hillside descending on my right. There were occasional views out through the trees across the valley on that side.
The path along the boundary between Idlecombe Wood (left) and Churchfield Wood
The path along the boundary between Idlecombe Wood and Churchfield Wood
The path through Idlecombe Wood, after I went left at a path junction
The path through Idlecombe Wood
The path through Idlecombe Wood
View from the path through Idlecombe Wood
View from the path through Idlecombe Wood
The path through Idlecombe Wood
The path through Idlecombe Wood