Pete's Walks - Maidensgrove Common and Moor Common (page 3 of 6)
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On leaving Fingest Wood, the path continued across a large meadow to a gate, where it continued along a track between Adam's Wood and Moussells Wood (on my left). When Adam's Wood ended, I had a hedgerow to my right, over which I had occasional views towards the Hambleden Valley. Where the track turned right, I took a bridleway on the left that entered Moussells Wood and soon turned right. After a few hundred yards through the wood I reached a crossroads of rights of way - the OS map shows that the bridleway turns left here, but I went straight on, now on a footpath. The OS map also shows paths coming in from the left and then the right, but in fact there is just another path crossroads, where again I went straight on.
The path continuing from Fingest Wood towards Adam's Wood
The path continuing near Adam's Wood
The path continuing beside Moussells Wood
Looking right, towards the Hambleden valley, from the edge of Moussells Wood
The bridleway through Moussells Wood
The bridleway through Moussells Wood
The bridleway through Moussells Wood
The path through Moussells Wood (taken from the crossing where the bridleway goes left and the way ahead becomes a footpath)
The path through Moussells Wood
The path through Moussells Wood
When the path eventually reached the eastern edge of Moussells Wood it turned right - but I went through a kissing-gate and continued on a path going downhill through a meadow. In the valley bottom I crossed a minor road and took a path on the other side. This followed a wooden fence on my right for a few yards to a gate, beyond which the path crossed a field to a corner of a wood. The path continued beside the wood, on my left, and then carried on beside a fence on my right, with an arable field now on my left. In the field corner I turned right following a fence and then a hedge on my left for some distance, before going through a gate to join a track. The track led on past a farm and curved right, dropping a short way downhill to reach a drive where I turned left. The drive took me to the minor road through Moor Common, where I went right for maybe a couple of hundred yards, then turned left down a drive into the wooded part of Moorend Common.
The path after I turned left from the edge of Moussells Wood
The path after I crossed the minor road
Further along the same path
The path after I turned right, heading towards Moor Common
Further along that path
Further along that path, following a drive towards the road in Moor Common
The drive I followed into the woods of Moorend Common