Pete's Walks - Cowleaze Wood, Stokenchurch, Shirburn Hill (page 1 of 5)

If you are considering walking this route yourself, please see my disclaimer. You may also like to see these notes about the maps and GPX files.

Google map of the walk

I did this circular walk of about 8.7 miles on Friday, 28th June 2024. It was a repeat of a walk I did in July 2022

I parked in the large car park at Cowleaze Wood (Grid Reference SU 726956) and started walking about 10.55am. I took the footpath that started almost opposite the entrance to the car park, following it through the wood for about half a mile. On leaving the wood, the path continued downhill into the Wormsley Valley, with nice views ahead and to both sides - somewhere here I passed the densest clump of White Campion I think I have ever seen.

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The start of the path through Cowleaze Wood

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The path through Cowleaze Wood

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The path through Cowleaze Wood

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The path through Cowleaze Wood

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The path continuing down into the Wormsley Valley

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White Campion

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White Campion

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The path continuing down into the Wormsley Valley

On reaching one of the Wormsley Estate drives, I turned left for a short way (I saw my first Dark Mullein of 2024 here) and then turned right onto a footpath. This skirted round the gardens of Lower Vicar's Farm (to my left), then went half-left across a sloping paddock to reach a wood called Langleygreen Plantation. The path then continued uphill through the wood to reach a path crossroads near the top of the slope. I normally turn right here, but today I went straight on. The path continued to rise very gently for a few yards, then dropped downhill. On reaching the far side of the wood, the path continued downhill across a large meadow (in 2022 it had been a sheep pasture).

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Dark Mullein

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The path passing Lower Vicar's Farm

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The path continuing from Lower Vicar's Farm up to Langleygreen Plantation

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The path continuing up through Langleygreen Plantation

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The path continuing up through Langleygreen Plantation

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Where I went straight on at a path crossroads in Langleygreen Plantation

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The path descending through Langleygreen Plantation

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The path continuing from Langleygreen Plantation, descending across a meadow to the valley bottom

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The path continuing from Langleygreen Plantation, descending across a meadow to the valley bottom. A little later on in the walk I would be admiring the views from the field on the top left of this photo.