Pete's Walks - Cowleaze Wood, Crowell, Stokenchurch (page 6 of 7)
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Beyond this field I crossed the drive to Studdridge Farm and carried on along a path that followed the right edge of a meadow. On then entering Commonhill Wood, the path turned slightly left and descended very slightly to cross the beginning of a valley (it kept right at an apparent fork here). The path continued through the wood until it reached the minor road that runs from Stokenchurch to Ibstone (to my left).
The path after I kept right at a path fork near Studdridge Farm
The path continuing through Commonhill Wood
The path continuing through Commonhill Wood
The path continuing through Commonhill Wood
The Ibstone to Stokenchurch road
I went a very short way right along the road, then took a bridleway on the other side. Fairly soon this turned left and then gradually descended through Bowley's Wood for several hundred yards, before the path turned right and continued down through the wood to reach the valley bottom near Woodend Farm on the Wormsley Estate. I crossed one of the estate drives and continued along a footpath that started to gradually rise uphill through Langleygreen Plantation. Mysteriously, after a few hundred yards, for no apparent reason, the footpath becomes a bridleway - so this route includes a lane that becomes a byway (Crowell), a byway that becomes a bridleway (Lower Icknield Way) and now a bridleway that becomes a footpath!. The bridleway continued gently uphill through the wood before levelling out. After walking through the wood on the path/bridleway for about half a mile I came to a path crossroads, where I turned left.
View right from the start of the bridleway through Bowley's Wood
The bridleway through Bowley's Wood
The bridleway through Bowley's Wood
The bridleway through Bowley's Wood
The bridleway through Bowley's Wood
The bridleway through Bowley's Wood
The bridleway through Bowley's Wood, approaching Woodend Farm
The path through Langleygreen Plantation
The path through Langleygreen Plantation
The path through Langleygreen Plantation
The path through Langleygreen Plantation