Pete's Walks - Bix Bottom and Rotherfield Peppard (page 3 of 7)
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Across the road a bridleway soon led me into another wood, Greatbottom Wood. This was a fine beech wood, and it was again very pleasant wandering through it with all the bright new leaves on the trees. The path gradually dropped downhill into a valley (I kept right at an apparent fork, guided as usual by a white arrow on a tree). At a crossing of bridleways in the valley bottom I turned left (I was now on slightly more familiar ground, having walked this bridleway three times before), and continued through the wood for almost another half a mile. There was quite a good display of Bluebells here, and I also spotted a few Wood Anemones. On leaving the wood the bridleway continued between a hedge on my left and a fence for a short distance, then carried on through LittleBottom Wood for about another quarter of a mile.
The start of the bridleway going southwest from Satwell, after I crossed the B481
The bridleway going southwest from Satwell, through Greatbottom Wood
The bridleway going southwest from Satwell, through Greatbottom Wood
The bridleway going southwest from Satwell, through Greatbottom Wood
The bridleway going south through Greatbottom Wood
The bridleway going south through Greatbottom Wood
The bridleway going south through Greatbottom Wood
The bridleway going south through Greatbottom Wood
Reaching the end of Greatbottom Wood, with Littlebottom Wood in the distance
Between Greatbottom Wood and Littlebottom Wood
Littlebottom Wood
Littlebottom Wood
On leaving Littlebottom Wood at a bend in a lane, I went left (actually more or less straight on), going uphill. At a lane junction I went left, starting another section of the route that was new to me, the lane now levelling out and running past a common on the right to reach the minor road that runs through Rotherfield Peppard (the B481 again). I went a few yards left and crossed the road, and then started down a byway called Dog Lane (a footpath started a little to the left, and there was a drive to a golf course just to the left of Dog Lane). The byway headed eastwards, passing a property and then one or two fields on the right before having the golf course on both side. Most of the while there were tall hedges and small trees either side so there were hardly any views at all. After about three-quarters of a mile I came to junction where a bridleway crossed Dog Lane (near a property named Crosslanes).
The lane after I turned left on leaving Littlebottom Wood
The lane into Rotherfield Peppard after I turned left
The start of Dog Lane
Dog Lane
Dog Lane
Dog Lane
Dog Lane
Dog Lane (approaching the bridleway crossing near Crosslanes)