Pete's Walks - Stoke Row, Woodhouse Farm, Checkendon (page 5 of 7)
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Across the lane I continued down a farm track, with Scott's Farm on my right. I went straight on when a path soon forked left, and again went straight on where a second path went left from the track. I passed a small cottage on my left, and then just after going through a gate, the track turned left and entered the corner of one of a number of inter-connected horse fields. Here I turned right, the path staying close to the tall hedgerow on the right. On eventually reaching the end of this field, I went through a gate and crossed over a road junction to take a hedge-lined track called Judges Lane (on the OS map). After a few hundred yards the track passed a cottage on the right and entered Ipsden Wood. It continued along a valley bottom through the wood for about half a mile, until it reached Busgrove Lane.
Start of the path from Scot's Farm
The path from Scot's Farm
The path from Scot's Farm, where the track enters the horse fields (I turned right here)
The path continuing through the horse fields/p>
The start of Judges Road
Judges Road
Judges Road in Ipsden Wood
Judges Road in Ipsden Wood
Judges Road in Ipsden Wood
I turned right along Busgrove Lane, but soon reached a junction where I turned right. After a couple of hundred yards or so, I took a footpath that went left into a wood (still Ipsden Wood, I think). The path soon met a bridleway, where I went more or less straight on, initially with a wood to my left and fields close by on my right. I soon had woods on both sides again, this now being Beech Wood. I passed through the tiny hamlet of Heath End, going straight on along the bridleway through the woods, until after another third of a mile the bridleway left the wood and ran between hedges or fences a short way to reach a lane in Hook End. Here I turned left, going straight on almost immediately when a lane came in on the right, and then taking the right fork at the next lane junction.
Busgrove Lane
The lane after I turned right
The start of the path to Hook End, going left from the lane
The bridleway to Hook End
The bridleway to Hook End
The bridleway to Hook End, approaching Heath End
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The bridleway to Hook End
Approaching Hook End
The lane through Hook End
The lane through Hook End (Park Lane)