Pete's Walks - Maidensgrove Common and Moor Common (page 5 of 6)
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The bridleway ended at a lane, where I went a short way left (towards the village of Skirmett) then turned right onto a footpath. This followed a hedge and then a fenceline on my left, with paddocks to my right. After several hundred yards I came to a path junction where I went left, following a short track into Skirmett (passing a few properties and the village hall). I turned right to follow the minor road through the village, then after two or three hundred yards turned left along a tree-lined drive.
The path along the edge of Skirmett, past the paddocks
The path along the edge of Skirmett, past the paddocks
Skirmett village hall
The road through Skirmett
The path along the drive in Skirmett
At the end of the drive a footpath continued ahead, going uphill between fences. After a while it turned right beside Combe Wood, stiil going uphill for a while further. It levelled out for a bit, then rose again after it turned left to follow a 'sunken lane' into the wood. After a hundred yards or so I turned right (no waymark or sign here) to follow a clear and level path through what was now Poynatts Wood. After about a quarter of a mile the right of way turned right from what was now a track. It dropped downhill, soon leaving the wood and continuing downhill as it crossed a meadow to reach another part of Poynatts Wood. On the other side of this part of the wood I reached Dolesden Lane.
The path continuing from Skirmett towards Combe Wood
The path along the edge of Combe Wood
View towards Fingest (where I was earlier)
The path continuing along a sunken lane, into the woods
The path continuing through Poynatts Wood
The path continuing through Poynatts Wood
The path continuing through Poynatts Wood, just before it reaches the meadow
The path crossing the meadow between two parts of Poynatts Wood
I turned left along the lane, but when it turned right I took a broad bridleway going more or less straight on. This followed a valley bottom, rising almost imperceptibly for about a mile and quarter through a succession of woods (Poynatts, Great, Kimble and Gussetts Woods).
Dolesden Lane
The long bridleway through the woods
The long bridleway through the woods
The long bridleway through the woods