Pete's Walks- Hambleden, Stonor, Fawley (page 2 of 7)
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I soon came to the end of the footpath where it met a bridleway in a valley bottom. I turned 'right' here, but actually more or less kept straight on as the path met the bridleway as it turned a corner. The bridleway led gently uphill through more of Great Wood, and continued after a while quite close to an edge of the wood to my left. On leaving the wood, the bridleway ran for quite a distance between fences and hedges to reach Upper Woodend Farm and a lane.
This is where I joined the bridleway in Great Wood
The bridleway in Great Wood
The bridleway in Great Wood
The bridleway continuing to Upper Woodend Farm
Zoomed-in shot looking left from near Upper Woodend Farm
Near Upper Woodend Farm
I turned right here and followed the lane to its end at a T-junction. where I continued straight on along a path across an empty pasture to reach Gussetts Wood. The path turned slightly left as it went through the wood, and dropped slowly downhill - I spotted another Silver-washed Fritillary here. I crossed a bridleway in a valley bottom, and continued ahead up the opposite slope to reach the northern edge of the wood.
The lane going north from Upper Woodend Farm
The path to Gussetts Wood
Gussetts Wood
The path after crossing the bridleway in Gussetts Wood
Beyond the wood, the path continued uphill through a very large sheep pasture, beside a hedge on my left. Near the top of the slope I reached a stile in the hedge, which I went over into another pasture. I turned right and cut across a small part of the pasture to a corner of the hedgerow, then followed the hedgerow until I reached another stile in the hedge which took me back into the sheep pasture again (I'm sure there must be some historic reason why the path doesn't just follow the hedgerow all the way through the sheep pasture, some field boundaries must have been removed or changed location). I turned left to follow the hedgerow a short distance to a gate and another stile. I then continued along a drive to reach a lane on the edge of Southend, a hamlet in the parish of Turville.
Further along the same path
View looking right
The path after switching to the other side of the hedge
The path after switching back to the right of the hedge