Pete's Walks- Coombe Hill and Kingsash (page 2 of 4)
On emerging from the wood I followed a path going right beside fields and pastures. I then went through an open gateway on the right, continuing a few yards to reach Russell Farm. Here I turned right and then left, now joining a path between tall hedges. At the end of this path I turned left, and soon reached Cobblershill Lane. I turned right along the lane, and after a quarter of a mile reached the car park (on the left) where I'd intended to start this walk. I took the path leading out of the far side of the car park (the OS map shows a single bridleway leaving the car park and then the path forking left - in fact the bridleway leaves the right of the car park, the path starts at the back of the car park). The path went a short distance uphill, before I forked left along a path through the woods with fields fairly close by to my left. At the end of this path I turned left, joining a section of the Chiltern Way, which ran between hedges and crossed a railway line before entering the park land around Mayortorne Manor. The path led on through paddocks to reach the A413, where I went a few yards left and went down Bowood Lane on the other side.
The path from Sermon's Wood to Russell Farm
Cobblershill Lane
The path through Cockshoots Wood
The Chiltern Way heading to Mayortorne Manor
The path through the parkland at Mayortorne Manor
Bowood Lane, Wendover Dean
At the end of Bowood Lane, I turned left along another lane which soon turned right. At the next right turn I took a footpath going left, along a hedge-lined track - I saw a Speckled Wood butterfly and a Red Admiral along here. At the next path junction, I turned right and followed a hedgerow on my left through a large L-shaped field, keeping alongside the hedge when it turned left. The path then climbed steadily uphill through a field of stubble to reach the hamlet of Kingsash (the farm here is called King's Ash Farm, so I think that is how the hamlet's name is pronounced).
Near the start of the path from Wendover Dean
The start of the path to Kingsash, after I turned right
The path to Kingsash
The path to Kingsash
Looking back, from along the path to Kingsash
I turned left to immediately reach a road junction, where I turned right and followed the road through the hamlet and out the other side. When the road turned right, I took a bridleway going straight on, soon with Great Widmoor Wood on my left. I stopped for lunch at a path crossroads (it was now about 1pm), before continuing straight on. The bridleway was soon running along the left edge of another field of stubble. When I reached a crossing path I turned left, and walked across another stubble field to reach a narrow section of Baldwin's Wood.
The road leaving Kingsash
The bridleway going northeast from Kingsash, past Great Widmoor Wood
The bridleway going northeast from Kingsash
The bridleway going northeast from Kingsash, Lordling Wood to the right
The path heading north to Baldwin's Wood