Pete's Walks - Little Missenden and Forty Green (page 4 of 5)
I went a little way right in Penn, then took a path by the car park of a pub (The Crown). Beyond the car park the path entered Vicarage Wood, descending gently through the trees. I then crossed a couple of very large ploughed fields, dipping and rising through a small valley with pleasant views over the valley of Penn Bottom to my right. The path carried on through another wood, Brook Wood, and then crossed a smaller ploughed field to a minor road.
View northeast from near The Crown, Penn
The path through Vicarage Wood
The path north from Vicarage Wood
The path north from Vicarage Wood (this little valley isn't really clear in the previous photo). The Chiltern Way follows the far side of the crossing hedgerow, between Penn Bottom and Penn (to the left)
Looking east from just before Brook Wood
The footpath through Brook Wood
I followed the road a little distance to the right. When it ended at a T-junction, I went straight on along a footpath into a wood called Pennhouse Grove, where I soon turned left at a path junction. The path curved right through the wood, and beyond it passed through some parkland on the edge of Penn House. I followed the path as it continued north along a drive from the big house. The drive turned left, then just after the drive turned slightly right, a path on the left led through a small wood and across an empty pasture or meadow to a road, where I turned left into the village of Penn Street.
The minor road north of Brook Wood
The path to Pennhouse Grove
The footpath through Pennhouse Grove
The footpath through Pennhouse Grove
Near Penn House
The wood north of Penn House
Where the road turned right, I went straight on with the large village green to my right, and then took a path entering Penn Wood on the right. There was then a pleasant, if occasionally muddy, section of about three-quarters of a mile through the wood.
Penn Street
The path through Penn Wood
The path through Penn Wood
The path through Penn Wood