Pete's Walks- Stoke Row, Checkendon, Woodhouse Farm (page 4 of 6)
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At the top of the slope I turned right along a byway called Braziers Lane, which after about a third of a mile brought me to a lane on Garsons Hill. There is usually a reasonable view looking left from here, out over part of the Oxfordshire Plain, but today it was rather misty. I turned right along the lane, and then took the second footpath on the left - partway along it I was pleased to find that the dangerous stile that was here last April has been replaced by a new wooden kissing-gate (thanks to the Chiltern Society).
Braziers Lane
Braziers Lane
The lane at Garsons Hill (looking right from the end of Braziers Lane)
A misty Oxfordshire Plain from Garsons Hill (looking left from the end of Braziers Lane0
The path after I turned left (the SECOND footpath on the left) from the lane on Garsons Hill
Further along the same path - there was a very dangerous stile when I was here last April, the excellent Chiltern Society have replaced it with this new gate
The path then soon entered a wood where it turned left. I kept right at a path junction (where the first path from Garsons Hill came in), the path then dropping downhill through the wood. Beyond the wood, the path continued downhill through an empty pasture, then followed the right edge of an arable field to reach a lane. Across the lane a path continued, going right, along the top of an embankment. I looked out for a metal kissing gate a few yards to the left of the embankment. Through this gate, the path continued downhill alongside a hedge on my left, and then through a stable yard to reach a byway in Well Place.
The path continuing through a wood
Where I kept right at a fork
The path continuing downhill through the wood
View from the edge of the wood (the path continues to the gate) - Hailey is on the skyline, the other side of Well Place
Coming to the end of the path
The path on the other side of the lane
The path continuing down to Well Place (I will refrain from having another rant about Rowan Atkinson's hideous eyesore on the hill to the right of this shot)