Pete's Walks- Christmas Common, Turville, Cadmore End (page 5 of 6)
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 (this walk started at Christmas Common instead of Watlington Hill, and follow 'Alternative 1' on the map)
The path was soon dropping steadily downhill through the wood, into a valley named Twigside Bottom - towards the bottom of the slope the path became a grassy track. In the valley bottom I went 'straight on' at a staggered crossroads, going left along a very muddy and rutted track (it always seems to be like this) before turning right along a broad strip of grass through the trees (presumably a fire break). On leaving the wood, the path continued up the other side of the valley, along the right edge of a field of rough grass - there was a nice view along the valley here. The path then continued between old hedges and eventually brought me to the road that runs through Ibstone.
The path descending into Twigside Bottom
The path descending into Twigside Bottom
Near the start of the path from Twigside Bottom to Ibstone
The path from Twigside Bottom to Ibstone
View from the path from Twigside Bottom to Ibstone
The path from Twigside Bottom to Ibstone
I turned left and after one or two hundred yards took a footpath on the right (the sign is hidden from view by a holly hedge when going this way). This ran between gardens, then continued between fences - I saw a number of Fallow deer in the pasture on my left. Further on the path dropped steeply between fences (new since I last came this way), with a wood on my left and a pasture on my right. On reaching the valley bottom, the path continued uphill through a part of the wood to reach a lane near Hellcorner Farm in another part of Ibstone.
The path between the road through Ibstone and Hellcorner Farm
A Fallow deer, at Ibstone
The path between the road through Ibstone and Hellcorner Farm
The path continuing uphill to the lane near Hellcorner Farm
A few yards to the left, a footpath started on the other side of the lane. After passing between some gardens, it crossed part of an irregularly shaped sheep pasture, then continued along a hedge and fence on the left in the same pasture to reach Great Wood. A little way into the wood, the path turned left and a little further on it curved right and started dropping downhill into the Wormsley valley.
The path from near Hellcorner Farm, approaching Great Wood
Great Wood
The path starting to descend through Great Wood
The path descending through Great Wood
The path descending through Great Wood