Pete's Walks- Cobblershill and Little Kingshill (page 4 of 5)
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Lunch over, I walked along the left edge of the playing field and continued on until I reached another road. I crossed over, and then walked through the garden of a pub, the path continuing down a short alley and then running for some distance between a tree-lined hedge on my right and the wire fence of some fields on my left. The path continued a short distance through Sandwich Wood, before going half-left across an arable field. On the far side it turned further left beside a meadow on my right that contained a lot of Red Campion, the first I'd seen this year. The path then went past Nairdwood Farm to reach Nags Head Lane, where I turned right.
The path from the pub in Little Kingshill
The path from the pub in Little Kingshill
The path from the pub in Little Kingshill, in Sandwich Wood
The path continuing towards Nairdwood Farm
The path continuing towards Nairdwood Farm
I followed Nags Head Lane for two or three hundred yards, then turned left along a surfaced drive (more like a lane). When this turned left through some gates, I went straight on along a bridleway that took me to Atkins Wood. The bridleway became very muddy in the wood, especially as it reached a sharp turn to the right. Just round this turn, I went through a gate in the wire fence on the left. Within a few yards a very faint and unsignposted path forked half-right from the more obvious path (which went straight on, just inside the southern edge of the wood). When I neared the far side of the wood I came to a path T-junction where I turned left.
Nags Head Lane
The drive to Sedges Farm
The start of the bridleway to Atkins Wood
The bridleway to Atkins Wood
The path through Atkins Wood
Beyond Atkins Wood the path followed a hedge on the right, turning right and then left, then turning right through a gate and going past Andlows Farm, before turning left along the farm drive to reach a road on the eastern edge of Prestwood. I went a short way right here, then went down a narrow street on the other side, at the end of which a narrow path continued. This brought me to another street, where I turned right to soon reach a crossroads. I went straight on down Moat Lane, then after maybe a quarter of a mile I turned right on a footpath along the drive of Kimba Farm Stud. The path ran between fences for a while, then ran beside some paddocks on my left.
The footpath from Atkins Wood
The same path, passing Andlows Farm
The drive from Andlows Farm
The path from Kimba Farm Stud
The path from Kimba Farm Stud
This Yellowhammer perched on a paddock fence just a few yards ahead of me and waited patiently for me to take some photographs of it. As I did so, I gradually became aware of some heavy breathing close to my left ear - somewhat disconcerted, I turned to find a horse had stuck its head over the paddock fence and was waiting, equally patiently, for me to stroke its muzzle.