Pete's Walks- Cobblershill and Little Kingshill (page 5 of 5)
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The path then entered Rignall Wood, and started descending gently downhill. Beyond the wood, the path ran between a tall hedge and wooden fence for some distance, before reaching Rignall Road. Here I went right for maybe a hundred yards, then took a footpath going left along a track or drive. When the track when slightly right through some garden gates, the path continued ahead between a garden hedge on my right and a hedgerow on my left. The path then continued uphill through Coneybank Wood. On the far side of the wood I went over a stile and turned left along another path, running beside the wood with a large sheep pasture extending over the hillside to my right.
The path through Rignall Wood
The path through Rignall Wood
The path continuing from Rignall Wood
The path going north from Rignall road to Coneybank Wood
The path going north from Rignall road to Coneybank Wood, just after it leaves the drive
The path continuing through Coneybank Wood
The view right from where the path leaves Coneybank Wood
The path along the edge of Coneybank Wood
I was now on one of the surprisingly few parts of this route that I'd walked since I last did this walk in 2012 (I did it near the start of this Great Missenden and Coombe Hill walk in 2015, for example). After a couple of hundred yards, the path re-entered Coneybank Wood and continued on until it met a bridleway on the western side of the wood. I turned right, following the bridleway northwest-wards along the top of a ridge, with the valley that becomes the Misbourne valley over to my right. After a few hundred yards the bridleway merged with another one coming in sharply from the right. I then continued along the bridleway for about three-quarters of a mile, until I came to a track and path junction just south of Cobblershill.
The path continuing through another part of Coneybank Wood
The bridleway going north from Coneybank Wood
The bridleway going northwest to Cobblershill
The bridleway going northwest to Cobblershill
The bridleway going northwest to Cobblershill
I took a bridleway going half-right through Cockshoots Wood - I think I might have gone slightly off track through here, though I did pass a white arrow on a tree, because I had to turn right at a T-junction of paths before coming to a junction where a blue waymark indicated the route of the bridleway (there was no sign of any other way the bridleway could have reached this point, though). Anyway it was simple enough to follow the bridleway after that, and it eventually led downhill through the wood and straight back to the car park where I'd started.
The bridleway through Cockshoots Wood
The bridleway through Cockshoots Wood
The bridleway through Cockshoots Wood
I enjoyed this walk very much, it seemed to be just right for what I'd wanted to do today. It was the right distance at 12.5 miles (I didn't want to overdo things after suffering in the heat a couple of weeks ago), and it was very nice to walk so many paths that I'd not walked for almost four years. I was really surprised that there were so few sections I'd walked since I last did this route, I really must come to this part of the Chilterns more often.