Pete's Walks - Cowleaze Wood, Crowell, Stokenchurch (page 5 of 6)
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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 - I spotted two Roe Deer in a paddock on the other side of the valley. 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. 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.
Roe Deer, seen from the path from Coopers Court Farm
View from the path from Coopers Court Farm
The path from Coopers Court Farm
The path from Coopers Court Farm, approaching Bissomhall Shaw
The path from Coopers Court Farm
The path from Coopers Court Farm
The path after I kept right at a path fork near Studdridge Farm (leaving the Chiltern Way)
Beyond this field I crossed the drive to Studdridge Farm and carried on along a path that followed the right edge of a meadow - I spotted svereal Common Spotted Orchids here. 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 approaching Commonhill Wood
The path continuing through Commonhill Wood
The path continuing through Commonhill Wood
The path continuing through Commonhill Wood