Pete's Walks - Stoke Row, Woodhouse Farm, Checkendon (page 6 of 7)
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I then looked out for and took a bridleway going right, initially going through an area of Rhododendrons, and then turning left along a track through another wood. Not too long after leaving the wood I came to a bridleway T-junction, where I went left. After a quarter of a mile or so this bridleway brought me back to the lane I'd followed through Hook End (Park Lane). I crossed over and continued along the bridleway, which was soon running just inside the edge of a wood named Nipper Grove, with fields to my right. After about half a mile, I reached a lane, across which the bridleway continued for a few hundred yards to reach Wyfold Lane.
The bridleway going right from Park Lane
The bridleway after it turns left
The bridleway after I turned left at a a bridleway junction
The bridleway after crossing Park Lane
The bridleway continuing along the edge of Nippers Grove
The bridleway continuing along the edge of Nippers Grove
The bridleway continuing along the edge of Nippers Grove
The bridleway continuing along the edge of Nippers Grove
The wood between the two lanes
I crossed the lane and went a few yards right, then took a bridleway continuing in roughly the same northeasterly direction as before. This ran between hedges (I soon spotted the pink berries of a Spindle tree, something I don't come across very often) with only occasional glimpses of the fields either side - the large field on my left initially was a sheep pasture. Further on the bridleway was running past the extensive grounds of Wyfold Court (a large Victorian mansion, now apartments) on the left, I now and then caught sight of the grand house though it was largely hidden by trees.
The bridleway going northwest near Wyfold Court
Spindle berries
The bridleway going northwest near Wyfold Court
The bridleway going northwest near Wyfold Court
The bridleway going northwest near Wyfold Court
Wyfold Court
The bridleway going northwest near Wyfold Court