Pete's Walks - West Wycombe, Horsleys Green, Fingest (page 4 of 6)
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Lunch over, I followed the lane on the other side of the green (heading away from the road) to reach Cadmore End church. Here I took a bridleway going right, immediately leaving the village along a farm track. The bridleway soon curved left and dropped slightly downhill. When it reached Hanger Wood, I forked right onto a path through the wood (I could have stayed on the bridleway to shorten the route by about half a mile, omitting Fingest). The footpath ran through the wood very pleasantly for about half a mile. There was another seat where the path left Hanger Wood (another place I've occasionally eaten my lunch), the path then dropping quite steeply downhill between a fence and a hedge on my right to reach Chequers Lane in Fingest (again I could have shortened the route very slightly, by taking a path on the left just before I reached the lane).
Approaching Cadmore End church
Near the start of the bridleway from Cadmore End to Fingest (there was a brief spell of sunshine at this moment)
View left from near the start of the bridleway from Cadmore End to Fingest
The path through Hanger Wood
The path through Hanger Wood
The path through Hanger Wood
The path continuing down from Hanger Wood to Fingest
I turned left and took some photos of the impressive Fingest church (yet again!), then turned left at the end of the lane (opposite the Chequers pub). I soon left Fingest - I tried to follow a path to the left of the road, but soon had to give up and follow the road when the path become impassibly muddy with thorny bushes either side. I then took a bridleway on the left (this was the same one I'd taken out of Cadmore End), along a farm track. This fairly soon turned right (the other path I just mentioned came in on the left here), and not long after I had Hanger Wood on my left. Towards the end of this side of Hanger Wood I reached a junction, where I took a footpath forking very slightly right from the bridleway. The path continued along a farm track, then followed the right edge of a sheep pasture. In the next field I continued beside the hedge on my right, following it when it turned right.
Fingest church (a different shot from the one I usually take!)
The path beside the road going east from Fingest
The bridleway, where I turned left from the road
The bridleway continuing past Hanger Wood
The bridleway continuing past Hanger Wood
The footpath after I forked slightly right from the bridleway