Pete's Walks - Wigginton and Wendover Woods (page 3 of 4)
The path eventually levelled out, and I followed it straight on for several hundred yards (I had my lunch at a picnic table along here). It was unusually quiet, I met far fewer people than normal as I gradually drew nearer to the visitor centre in Wendover Woods.
The path continuing from Boddington Hill to the visitor centre at Wendover Woods
View left, out over the Vale of Aylesbury, from Wendover Woods
The path continuing from Boddington Hill to the visitor centre at Wendover Woods
On reaching the car park at the visitor centre, I followed the signs on the ground saying 'Exit' around the left of the car park, but then turned left where cars where coming into the car park. I followed this drive, walking against the flow of traffic, for about a quarter of a mile, when a path started at a slight bend to the left (where there was a barrier across the start of the path). This continued through the woods, then went through a very tall kissing-gate. It then ran alongside a long garden fence, and then along a tree-lined drive to reach a minor road close to the top of Aston Hill.
The drive from the visitor centre
The path to Aston Hill
The path to Aston Hill
The path to Aston Hill
Over the road, I set off down a track that led towards Aston Hill Farm, from where a path continued beside a wooden fence on the right. Soon the path was dropping downhill through woods, and a little further on there was a field on my left - occasionally I could see out towards the Vale Of Aylesbury or to Ivinghoe Beacon.
The drive to Aston Hill Farm
The drive to Aston Hill Farm
Gorse, along the drive to Aston Hill Farm
The path continuing past Aston Hill Farm
The path descending Aston Hill
The path descending Aston Hill
The path descending Aston Hill
View left from the path descending Aston Hill
The path descending Aston Hill
At the bottom of the hill I turned right along Dancers End Lane, but after a hundred yards or so I turned left onto a footpath. This was soon running along the edge of a large cornfield on my right, with views over it to the wooded slopes below Hastoe, where I was now headed. I continued through the next, much smaller, cornfield, then turned right along a hedge-lined track (a byway named Fox Lane on the OS map).
Dancers End Lane
The path from Dancers End Lane
The path from Dancers End Lane
Fox Lane