Pete's Walks- West Wycombe, Fingest and Horsleys Green (page 2 of 7)
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I kept right at a fork just before reaching the edge of the wood. On leaving the wood I crossed a drive (coming from a small reservoir, to my left) and continued across an area of rough grass to reach the edge of Lane End, where I turned right (there is a public footpath on tarmac next to the houses here, but I just followed the obviously well-used parallel path in the rough grass). I went through a metal kissing-gate and then a second one a few feet to the left, continuing down a short alley with garden fences on my right. Across a street the footpath continued, now a tarmac path, soon keeping left at a very narrow fork. I passed a playing area on my left, then the path continued between metal railings for some way, until I reached a road in the centre of Lane End, with a duck pond on my right.
The path from Widdenton Park Wood to the edge of Lane End
The path along the edge of Lane End
Near the start of the path through Lane End
The path through Lane End, just after I crossed a street
Across the road a path continued down a short alley, before crossing a drive and continuing across the front of a large house. When I then reached an open grass area on my right, I turned and crossed it to reach a road. Across this I carried on down a wide track for a couple of hundred yards or so, then turned right onto a footpath that started by a tall pub sign (I think there used to be a pub here, but it certainly looks like its no longer in business).
The path through Lane End
Pond in the centre of Lane End
The path after I crossed the road in the centre of Lane End
This is where the path turns right to reach a road, where I continued down a track opposite
The path ran between fences and hedges a short distance to reach Fining Wood, where It continued straight on, close to the edge of the wood on my left. It went over a small wooden footbridge, and then a larger footbridge. After a while it merged with a track coming in sharply from the right - a path soon forked left but the footpath stayed on the track, descending slightly and then turning right. A little further on I took another path which forked slightly left, again close to the edge of the wood on my left. When this path ended at a path T-junction, I turned left and immediately left the wood at a gate. The path continued along the right edge of an arable field, with another wood, Long Copse, on my right.
Near the start of the path from Lane End, approaching Fining Wood
Small footbridge in Fining Wood
The path in Fining Wood
Fining Wood, after the path turned right - a few yards along here I forked left
Fining Wood, after I forked left
The gate where I left Fining Wood (Frieth is on top of the hill in the distance)
The path running along the edge of Long Copse