Pete's Walks - West Wycombe, Horsleys Green, Fingest (page 3 of 6)
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The path continued through Thirds Wood for a while, then on leaving the wood carried on down a wide holly-lined track. I crossed a drive at the entrance to the former Wycliffe Centre at Horsleys Green, the path continuing past this into Dell's Wood. After a while the path turned left for maybe a hundred yards before going half-right and descending through the wood to a valley bottom. Here I went straight on at a junction with a bridleway, the climb up the opposite side of the valley seeming to be much shorter than the descent down the opposite side had been. When the path left Dell's Wood at a gate, it crossed a paddock half-right to reach Dell's Farm. Here I went half-left along a track, with the farm to my left and an arable field visible a short distance ahead of me.
The path after I turned left in Thirds Wood
The path continuing to Horsleys Green
The path continuing past the former Wycliffe Centre, Horsleys Green (for 40 years this was the headquarters of the Wycliffe bible translators)
The path continuing through Dell's Wood
The path continuing through Dell's Wood
The path continuing through Dell's Wood
The path continuing through Dell's Wood
The paddock at Dell's Farm
On reaching the field I turned left along its edge, soon reaching a field corner where I turned right, now following a hedgerow on my left. This brought me to Leygrove's Wood, the path bearing slightly left as it continued through the wood. I went straight on at a path crossroads, the path now on a broad track for a while, before forking slightly right (white arrows showed the way, as usual) and soon reaching the edge of Leygrove's Wood. The path then cut across a small corner of a field between Leygrove's Wood and Pound Wood, where I turned right along a forestry track (another path went further right from the same junction). After a hundred yards or so I took a short path on the left that cut a corner from the track, before rejoining the track and following it (left) under the M40 to reach a road at Cadmore End. I went a little way left before crossing the road and making my way to a seat on the green to eat my lunch.
Field path between Dell's Farm and Leygrove's Wood
Field path between Dell's Farm and Leygrove's Wood
Leygrove's Wood
Leygrove's Wood
Leygrove's Wood, after the path crossroads
Leygrove's Wood
The field corner between Leygrove's Wood and Pound Wood
The forestry track in Pound Wood
The start of the short path cutting a corner from the forestry track
Rejoining the forestry track
The road through Cadmore End