Pete's Walks - Hambleden, Marlow Common, Moorend Common (page 2 of 5)
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I called in briefly at the Homefield Wood nature reserve (the entrance was on the left of the track after a quarter of a mile or so), but as I expected the orchids I'd seen just starting to flower a month ago were all now dead, and another kind wasn't yet in flower. I did see a Slow Worm (as I did when I did this walk last year) and several Marbled White butterflies.
At the end of a track I turned right along a lane for a few yards, then took a path on the other side. This ran between a fence on my left and a hedge. After a hundred yards or so it turned right, now between a hedge and a fence on my right - I saw some Great Mullein growing along here. After a few hundred yards the path entered Pullingshill Wood where it went steeply uphill before levelling out and reaching a lane.
Slow Worm
Marbled Whites (male and female)
The path from Homefield Wood to Pullingshill Wood
The path from Homefield Wood to Pullingshill Wood
The path from Homefield Wood to Pullingshill Wood
The path continuing up through Pullingshill Wood (the fungi on the log is Dryad's Saddle)
The path through Pullingshill Wood approaching the lane
I turned left along the lane, which headed north with the wood on either side. On reaching a T-junction I went straight on along a bridleway that followed the western edge of the wooded Marlow Common. After a few hundred yards, by a large house on the left, the bridleway ran across some short grass just right of what was now a surfaced drive. At the end of the bridleway (and drive) I turned left, and followed Frieth Road for about a third of a mile, before turning right along a bridleway that followed the drive to Sunday Dean Farm. This dropped steeply downhill into a valley, where I turned left along Munday Dean Lane.
The lane going north to Marlow Common
The bridleway along the western edge of Marlow Common
The bridleway along the western edge of Marlow Common
The bridleway along the western edge of Marlow Common
Frieth Road (the bridleway I took on the right is just out of shot, where the road goes slightly right)
The drive to Munday Dean Farm
The drive to Munday Dean Farm
View right from the drive to Munday Dean Farm