Pete's Walks - West Wycombe and Moorend Common (page 5 of 6)
If you are considering walking this route yourself, please see my disclaimer. You may also like to see these notes about the maps and GPX files.
At the end of the drive I turned right along another drive, in the village of Moor Common, with properties either side. Near some large iron gates on the right, I took a path forking left - this should have gone across part of a field, but had been temporarily diverted round the edge of the field. There were sheep feeding on something like Sugar Beet in the field, they were so dirty that from a distance I'd assumed they were pigs! The path continued beside a second such field on my left and then followed the edge of part of Moor Wood with a hedge on my right. The path then crossed through a narrow section of the wood, and then followed the wood on my right a short way with some rough ground on my left. The path then turned left (this was a path junction, but there was no waymark or sign), continuing along the edge of the rough ground before entering another part of Moor Wood. After two or three hundred yards the path turned left, staying in the wood but now with a meadow just to my right.
The path from Moor Common to Moor Wood (the sheep were so dirty, from a distance I thought they must be pigs)
The path from Moor Common to Moor Wood
The path from Moor Common to Moor Wood
The path from Moor Common to Moor Wood
The path continuing through Moor Wood
The path continuing through Moor Wood
This is where the path went left (a waymark or sign would be helpful here)
The path continuing through Moor Wood
The path continuing through Moor Wood
The path after it turns left beside the meadow
On reaching a road, I took a permissive path that ran just to the left of the road (I was now back on a more familiar part of the route). When it ended after about three hundred yards, I very carefully crossed the road and took a path on the other side that crossed a field to reach Widdenton Park Wood. The path went very slightly right, staying close to an edge of the wood on my right. After several hundred yards I reached a path T-junction in the wood where I turned left. I always hear shooting here as there is a Country Sports company nearby that obviously has a shooting range where presumably customers can try out new guns - it seemed particularly close to the footpath today. After a while I reached the green metal fence that surrounds a reservoir. The path went left, then right along another part of the fence, then continued down the drive from the reservoir. The edge of Lane End was across the rough ground to my left, while another part of Widdenton Park Wood was to the right of the drive.
The permissive path beside the road
The path to Widdenton Park Wood
Widdenton Park Wood
Widdenton Park Wood
Widdenton Park Wood, after I turned left at a path junction
Widdenton Park Wood
Widdenton Park Wood, where the path goes round two sides of a reservoir
The drive from the reservoir (Lane End is just to the left here)