Pete's Walks - West Wycombe and Moorend Common (page 4 of 6)
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I continued down a path on the opposite side of the road, which ran between the boundaries of a property on the left and the church on my right, then continued between hedgerows on either side. After a while there were meadows beyond the hedges. The path eventually ended at a path T-junction just as it entered another meadow, where I turned left (back on familiar territory again). I now followed a hedgerow on my left until it turned left, when the path continued ahead across the meadow to a metal kissing-gate (I could see a second one a little further on, but that is for a different footpath). The path now ran a very short way just inside the edge of Moorend Wood to reach a track, where I turned left. I stayed on the track where waymarks indicated a junction of several paths, but then when the track curved left I took a path going straight on (arrow on tree) through another bit of the wood to reach a road at the hamlet of Moorend.
The path going south from Frieth
The path going south from Frieth
The path going south from Frieth
The path after I turned left, towards Moor End
The path after I turned left, towards Moor End, entering Moorend wood
The path continuing through Moorend Wood - it goes right from where the track curves left
The path continuing through Moorend Wood
I crossed the road and continued down a drive on the other side. A path soon forked slightly left, into a grassy ares of Moorend Common - this was where I kept coming back to last summer to admire the host of orchids. I followed the path through the middle of this open part of the common and on into the wooded part, where the path very soon turned left and crossed a plank bridge over a tiny streamlet (any flowing water is worthy of note in the Chilterns!). The clear path continued on through the woods, crossing a drive at one point. A little further on a waymark on a post indicated where the path went half-right, and a few yards further on I reached a path junction by the corner of a brick wall. Here I turned left (starting the last of the four sections that I would be walking for the first time in this direction) alongside the wall, soon joining a drive from some cottages.
The start of the path north through Moorend Common
Moorend Common
Moorend Common
The footbridge over the tiny stream on Moorend Common
The path north through Moorend Common
The path north through Moorend Common
The path north through Moorend Common
The path north through Moorend Common
The path after I turned left by a brick wall at Moor Common