Pete's Walks - Cowleaze Wood, Crowell, Stokenchurch (page 5 of 7)
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Over another stile in the hedge on that side of the pasture (there was a nice view along the valley to my left here), the path continued downhill across another pasture aiming for a corner of this field by Hallbottom Farm. From that corner the path rose uphill between a wooden fence and the wire fence of another sheep pasture. Through a gate, the path turned half right, continuing a short way uphill to reach the drive coming up from Hallbottom Farm, where I turned left. I was very briefly back on known territory, before turning left again, along a path following another surfaced drive. I followed this for maybe a quarter of a mile, then immediately after passing a bungalow on the left, I turned very sharply right, joining the route of the Chiltern Way which I would now be following for about a mile. The path crossed part of a corn field, then continued in roughly the same direction across a rough meadow. This brought me back to the drive from Hallbottom Farm, where I turned left and entered Stokenchurch. I turned right at a T-Junction (where the Royal Oak was on my right), following this street as it curved left towards the A40, the main road through the village. I stopped to eat my lunch on a seat here, and had a chat with a couple who were just setting off on a walk of their own.
View left along Colliers Lane towards Radnage
The path to Hallbottom Farm (on the right) from Crowell Wood
The path continuing from Hallbottom Farm
The path continuing from Hallbottom Farm
The drive from Hallbottom Farm
The path after I turned left from the drive from Hallbottom Farm
The path after I turned left from the drive from Hallbottom Farm
The Chiltern Way heading towards Stokenchurch
The Chiltern Way heading towards Stokenchurch
Approaching Stokenchurch
Approaching Stokenchurch
I then crossed the A40, went a few yards left and turned right. I followed the street over a roundabout (where a sign said it was now Coopers Court Road), and followed it slightly downhill. At a junction I went straight on down the drive to Coopers Court Farm (that's the name on the OS map, a sign here indicates it's now called Chiltern End Farm). The drive soon went under the M40 and then I went a few yards right before taking a path on the left that ran between paddock fences. The path then went left, following a hedge on my right with an arable field sloping down on my left. After following the hedgerow on my right for a few hundred yards, the path passed through a narrow wood called Bissomhall Shaw. The path then continued alongside another hedge on my right past another arable field (I forgot to take a photo here). On entering the next field I reached a fork in the path - the Chiltern Way went half-left across the field, heading towards Studdridge Farm but I went straight on along the right edge of the field.
The drive to Coopers Court Farm (approaching the bridge under the M40
The start of the path from Coopers Court Farm
View left from near Coopers Court Farm
The path from Coopers Court Farm
The path from Coopers Court Farm
The path from Coopers Court Farm
The path from Coopers Court Farm, in Bissomhall Shaw
The path after I kept right at a path fork near Studdridge Farm