Pete's Walks- Wigginton and Barn Wood (page 6 of 6)
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.
The path stayed close to the edge of the wood, close to the same arable field on my right, which is not what is shown on the OS map. After several hundred yards, I stayed on the path as it turned left, still just inside another edge of the wood (there are some path junctions here, and again they do not match what the OS map shows - I just followed the path that kept me just inside the wood). There were now some paddocks bordering the wood.
The footpath going southeast just inside Drayton Wood
The footpath going southeast just inside Drayton Wood
The footpath going southeast just inside Drayton Wood
The footpath going southeast just inside Drayton Wood
The footpath going southeast just inside Drayton Wood
The footpath going southeast just inside Drayton Wood
The footpath going southeast just inside Drayton Wood
The footpath going northeast just inside Drayton Wood
The path ended on Shire Lane (marking the border between Bucks and Herts). A few yards to the left, I took a path on the other side, which followed a hedge on my right through a field with horse jumps in it (there were also jumps built into the hedge). The path then continued through a wood called High Scrubs, almost immediately crossing a bridleway.
The footpath to High Scrubs
The path through High Scrubs
The path through High Scrubs
The footpath through High Scrubs
On the far side of the wood, I crossed another lane and carried on through Roundhill Wood. After a while there was a field corner on my left, where I went through a metal kissing gate and continued straight on along the edge of the field with Roundhill Wood on my right (in 2016 I continued along the parallel path just inside the wood - that's the way I usually go, for example on my Wigginton and Drayton Wood walk, so I just fancied a slight change today). After going through a hedge gap in the next field corner (if I'd taken the other path I'd have come through another metal kissing-gate here), the path went half left across a large meadow that had obviously been mown recently, then across a small corner of another similar field, before continuing in the same direction as before across part of a large corn field. It then went through a metal kissing-gate and crossed an empty pasture to reach a road, on the edge of Wigginton. Here I turned left, and followed the road for a quarter of a mile or so to return to the car park where I'd started.
The footpath through Roundhill Wood
The footpath through Roundhill Wood
The footpath alongside Roundhill Wood
The footpath from Roundhill Wood, crossing the large and recently mown meadow
The footpath from Roundhill Wood, crossing a corner of a meadow
The footpath from Roundhill Wood, crossing the corn field
The footpath from Roundhill Wood, approaching the road on the edge of Wigginton
This route really suited my purposes today. Having had a long and tiring day yesterday, I didn't want to either drive or walk too far, and I didn't want anything too challenging. So this was ideal, the route being fairly flat without many ups and downs. I enjoyed it, despite the grey skies and muggy atmosphere. As I've said when I've walked it before, it's not one of the best routes I've ever come up with but I'd be happy to walk it again sometime. However (again as I've said before), I'd still hesitate to recommend it to anyone else, as the paths on the ground do not match the OS map in two or three places. That's why I've not included it in the Chiltern Walks section of this web site.