Pete's Walks - West Wycombe, Horsleys Green, Fingest (page 5 of 6)
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From the next field corner, by the corner of a lane, I took a permissive path running between hedges with the lane just on my left. When the path reached a more open area of long grass and bushes, I went through a gap in the bushes by a seat and crossed the lane. A path on the other side rose up Hanover Hill, following the right edge of a cattle pasture. The path then ran between old hedges for a while, before running along the edge of an arable field with a wood on my right. In the next corner, I turned left and followed another side of the same field as far as a gate into a wood called Long Copse. The path continued through the wood for a couple of hundred yards or so, and on reaching the far side of the wood, continued along its edge with an arable field to my right. I went straight on alongside the wood at a path junction in a field corner where another path went right, and in the next field corner I entered Finings Wood.
The permissive path next to the lane
Looking right, back towards Fingest
The path up Hanover Hill
The path continuing to Long Copse
The path continuing to Long Copse
The path through Long Copse
The path continuing beside Long Copse
The start of the path through Fining Wood
Almost as soon as I entered the wood I turned right on a path that stayed fairly close to the edge of the wood on my right. After a while it joined a track, where it went right. The track soon curved left through the wood, and after a while the path forked slightly right from the track. Further on the path crossed a footbridge over a tiny streamlet, then it left the woods and ran between fences to enter Lane End, by a former pub on my left. I followed a path going half-left across some grass in front of me, soon reaching a drive where I turned right to reach a road. I crossed the road and went straight on across some grass to a brick wall, the path then turning left alongside the wall. I passed in front of a cottage, the path then soon going down an alleyway to emerge at a road in the centre of Lane End.
The path through Fining Wood
The path through Fining Wood
Tiny stream in Fining Wood, a rare sight in the Chilterns!
Approaching Lane End
The small grass area before I reached the road in Lane End
The start of the path across the road (it turns left alongside the wall)
The path continuing to the centre of Lane End
The centre of Lane End