Pete's Walks- Cowleaze Wood and Radnage (page 4 of 6)
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I turned right at the road junction, and followed the minor road for about a quarter of a mile before turning left onto a bridleway that started along the drive of a property named Pophley's. A footpath soon went left, but I stayed on the bridleway as it followed the drive round to the right. At the end of the drive the bridleway continued on into Pophley's Wood, where it turned slightly left and dropped steadily downhill through the wood. On leaving the wood at the bottom of the slope, the bridleway followed a track between large ploughed fields - there were nice views along the valley either side of me here.
Where I turned right onto a minor road
The bridleway passing Pophley's
The bridleway continuing through Pophley's Wood
The bridleway continuing through Pophley's Wood
The bridleway continuing through Pophley's Wood
Looking right, over part of Radnage towards Bledlow Ridge, from the edge of Pophley's Wood
The bridleway continuing from Pophley's Wood
The track ended when it met Grange Farm Road (despite the name, it's a lane). I turned left, and when the lane turned right I went straight on along a bridleway that followed a roughly surfaced track name Collier's Lane. This was very easy walking, as the track was very flat, following quite a broad valley bottom with ploughed fields either side. There were a large number of Lesser Celandine and Wood Anemones in the grass beside the track. After just over half a mile I came to a fork where a footpath went half-left but I stayed on the bridleway and track which went half-right. Soon the bridleway was running just inside Crowell Wood, which sloped up to my right. After another quarter of a mile or so I had Lott Wood on my left.
Collier's Lane
Wood Anemone, beside Collier's Lane
Collier's Lane
The bridleway continuing towards Crowell Wood
The bridleway continuing just inside Crowell Wood
The bridleway continuing between Lott Wood (left) and Crowell Wood
Further along the bridleway