Pete's Walks - Bledlow Ridge, Stokenchurch, Sprig's Alley (page 3 of 5)
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This was the drive from Hallbottom Farm, so for the next hundred yards or so I was sharing the route of the walk I did two days ago. I then took a footpath on the right, which crossed a patch of grass on some paving stones, then went a little way right along a drive before turning left, now with a wooden fence to my right. The path entered Stockfield Wood and soon came to a path junction where I turned half-right (the other public footpath went sharp right) - I had to scramble my way round a fallen tree that blocked the start of the path I wanted. The path gradually descended into a wooded valley, coming close to the edge of the wood in the valley bottom. Here the path turned right to stay just inside the wood, and climbed fairly gently up the other side of the valley. When the field nearby on my left came to a corner the path turned left and continued, still in Stockfield wood and still close to the field over to my left.
The drive near Mallard's Court
The path from near Mallard's Court to Stockfield Wood
The path continuing through Stockfield Wood, approaching the junction where I went half-right
The path continuing through Stockfield Wood
The path continuing through Stockfield Wood
The path continuing through Stockfield Wood, now at the bottom of the valley
The path continuing through Stockfield Wood
The path continuing through Stockfield Wood
The path continuing through Stockfield Wood
After a few hundred yards I came to a path T-junction in a corner of the wood, where I turned right. This path was soon dropping downhill, still in Stockfield wood and still close to a field over to my left. As I followed this path I heard a noise, and saw four Roe Deer running off. In the valley bottom the path turned left along a track (the wooded slope on my right was now Hawing Wood). There was a large number of Wood Anemones here. The path soon left the wood, and shortly afterwards turned right, rising uphill a short way before levelling out. I passed Gurdon's Farm on my right, and continued between a fence and a hedgerow on my right, dropping downhill to reach Kingston Wood. On entering the wood I immediately turned right on a bridleway that ran along just inside the wood. After a few hundred yards the bridleway was in High Wood, where I soon came to a crossroads of rights of way. Here I took a footpath going straight on (crossing the route of my last walk at this point).
The path continuing through Stockfield Wood, approaching the corner where I turned right
The path continuing through Stockfield Wood, descending the second valley
The path just before it leaves Stockfield Wood
The path between Stockfield Wood and Gurdon's Farm
The path continuing from Gurdon's Farm
The bridleway through Kingston Wood, after I turned right
Footpath junction in High Wood, where I went straight on