Pete's Walks- Southeast from Watlington Hill (page 2 of 4)
I turned right along the lane to head southwards. After some distance a bridleway forked slightly left from the lane, following a garden boundary on the left, soon crossing the end of the lane (or maybe it's now a drive here) before dropping steadily downhill with some fine beech trees on the right. Where the tree-lined bridleway turned slightly left, I took a path going right (actually, it's almost straight on), descending across a small area of scrub (where I saw some Clustered Bellflower) and then down across a sheep pasture to reach some trees and then another of the drives through the Wormsley estate. A path continued on the other side of the drive, rising up across another sheep pasture to reach more trees running alongside Holloway Lane.
The lane near Hell Corner Farm
The bridleway that is the continuation of the lane, heading south
The bridleway that is the continuation of the lane, heading south
The path heading downhill towards another drive on the Wormsley estate - Holloway Lane is in the trees beyond the second green field
The path across the drive, heading up to Holloway Lane
Nice view back, from just before reaching Holloway Lane
A bridleway started on the other side of the lane, soon running between hedges either side, then turning right just inside Idlecombe Wood. After a couple of hundred yards or so the bridleway turned left and rose quite steeply through the wood to reach Turville Heath. I turned left here along a track or drive here as far as the Barn (which seemed to be doing good business selling meals and drinks to cyclists and walkers), then went half-right across the heath to reach a small parking area at a road junction. Here I turned right and soon reached a T-junction.
Start of the bridleway on the other side of Holloway Lane
The bridleway on the other side of Holloway Lane
The same bridleway now running along the bottom of part of Idlecombe Wood
The same bridleway going uphill to Turville Heath
Turville Heath
I continued along a footpath on the opposite side of the junction, which led down the drive of a house called Saviours and through a gate, continuing near the edge of an area of long grass with the house over to my right. Through a gate I continued through an empty pasture, and then crossed a corner of a larger pasture (sloping out of view on my right) to a metal kissing-gate.
The path past the house called Saviours (to the right
The path from Saviours
The path from Saviours