Pete's Walks - Hambleden, Colstrope, Medmenham, Fawley (page 4 of 7)
If you are considering walking this route yourself, please see my disclaimer. You may also like to see these notes about the maps and GPX files.
I turned right and followed the lane for a quarter of a mile or so. Just after it went slightly left and then right, I took a path on the left (opposite a property named Arbon on the OS map). This crossed a corn field to reach another lane, at Lower Woodend. I went a very short way right, then took a footpath on the other side, which initially ran between garden boundaries either side, turning right and then curving left. On reaching a meadow, I went straight on, dropping quite steeply down into a valley, following a hedgerow on my left. At the bottom of the valley I went over two stiles either side of a farm track, the path then going half-right as it climbed up the opposite slope through another meadow (there were a few Pyramidal orchids coming into flower here).
The lane after I turned right
The lane after I turned right
The path after I turned left, opposite the property named Arbon on the OS map
The lane at Lower Woodend after I turned right (I took a path on the left by the road works sign)
The path from Lower Woodend to Marlow Common
The path from Lower Woodend to Marlow Common
View right from the path from Lower Woodend to Marlow Common
The path from Lower Woodend to Marlow Common
On reaching the corner of the meadow, I went over a stile and entered Marlow Common. I soon crossed a bridleway, and a few yards further on reached a seat on the left opposite an attractive glade in the wood. I stopped and sat on the seat to eat my lunch. Continuing on, I soon came to a path junction where I turned right and followed the new path straight on through the wooded common (there were a few odd junctions, but I just kept straight on, white arrows showing the route of the footpath).
The path into Marlow Common
The path through Marlow Common after I crossed the bridleway (I stopped on the seat here to eat my lunch)
The path after I turned right on Marlow Common
The path after I turned right on Marlow Common
On reaching a lane, I crossed over and continued down a track or drive. After two or three hundred yards, the footpath forked slightly left from the track, to pass between a property on the right and a field on the left. The path then ran through the corner of a wood, then continued in the same direction across a very large paddock. Through a metal kissing-gate in the far hedge it continued a short way across a corner of another paddock to a second such gate, beyond which I turned left and followed a path that soon brought me into Bovingdon Green.
The path from Marlow Common to Bovingdon Green
The path from Marlow Common to Bovingdon Green
The path from Marlow Common to Bovingdon Green
The path from Marlow Common to Bovingdon Green
The path from Marlow Common to Bovingdon Green (I turned left after the kissing-gate)