Pete's Walks - Wigginton and Wendover Woods (page 3 of 4)
The path eventually levelled out, and I followed it straight on for several hundred yards. There were many other people about now, as I gradually drew nearer to the visitor centre in Wendover Woods.
The path continuing from Boddington Hill to the visitor centre at Wendover Woods
The path continuing from Boddington Hill to the visitor centre at Wendover Woods
The path continuing from Boddington Hill to the visitor centre at Wendover Woods
The path continuing from Boddington Hill to the visitor centre at Wendover Woods
On reaching the car park at the visitor centre, I followed the signs on the ground saying 'Exit' around the left of the car park, but then turned left where cars were coming into the car park. I followed this drive, walking against the flow of traffic, for about a quarter of a mile, when a path started at a slight bend to the left. This continued through the woods, then went through a very tall kissing-gate. It then ran alongside a long garden fence, and then along a tree-lined drive to reach a minor road close to the top of Aston Hill.
The drive from the visitor centre - I took the path going straight on here
The path to Aston Hill
The path to Aston Hill
Over the road, I set off down a track with a Mountain Biking centre behind the fence on my left. The track led towards Aston Hill Farm, from where it continued beside a wooden fence on the right, still with the Mountain Bikers to the left. Soon the path was dropping downhill through woods, and a little further on there was a field on my left - occasionally I could see out towards the Vale Of Aylesbury or to Ivinghoe Beacon.
The path past the mountain biking centre on Aston Hill
The path continuing past Aston Hill Farm
The path descending Aston Hill
The Vale of Aylesbury and Ivinghoe Beacon from the path descending Aston Hill
At the bottom of the hill I turned right along Dancers End Lane, but after a hundred yards or so I turned left onto a footpath. This was soon running along the edge of a large cornfield on my right, with views over it to the wooded slopes below Hastoe, where I was now headed. I continued through the next, much smaller, cornfield, then turned right along a hedge-lined track (a byway named Fox Lane on the OS map).
The path descending Aston Hill
The path from Dancers End Lane
The path from Dancers End Lane
Fox Lane
Fox Lane