Pete's Walks- Southeast from Cadmore End (page 4 of 6)
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Initially the path was just inside an edge of the wood, with a field close by on my right, but further on I had the wood on either side of me. On the far side of the wood, the footpath went through a gate into the corner of a large meadow (I could also have taken a parallel bridleway a little to the right). I went right to another gate, the path then continuing between a hedgerow on my right (the bridleway was on the other side of it) and a wire fence on my left. The path was slightly overgrown, but the pleasant view along the valley towards Bluey's Farm made up for this.
The path through Shillingridge Wood
The path through Shillingridge Wood
The path through Shillingridge Wood
The path through Shillingridge Wood
The path continuing from Shillingridge Wood towards Bluey's Farm
View from near Bluey's Farm
The path then turned left onto the bridleway, but after a yard or two I turned right onto another footpath and so continued in more or less the same direction I'd been on, passing a row of conifers on my left. The path started to go uphill, and then I took a bridleway that went left (the junction was marked by white arrows on a tree), starting at a small gate (the first couple of times I walked this route, I went straight on and turned right at a junction near the top of the hill, but one time this was completely overgrown and I've not tried it since). The bridleway ran along a meadow and through a gate into a second meadow, shortly afterwards going through a gate and running between hedges and fences to reach Moor Wood.
Path near Bluey's Farm
The bridleway after I turned left after Bluey's Farm
Further along the bridleway, just before I went through a metal gate
I followed the bridleway through Moor Wood for over half a mile. Initially there was steep scrub-covered slope just a short way to my right, then there was a section where the wood was on either side, and then a section where I had a field on my right. Not long after the field ended, I came to a rather complicated junction. The track the bridleway had been following curved left, a path went right, and the bridleway went straight on (its start from where it left the track was half-hidden by the low branches of a tree). I stayed on the rather narrow bridleway, which gently rose uphill - for at least some of the way there was the remains of a fence on my right. At the top of the slope, the path left the wood and went half-left across a grassy field, to a gate in the corner.
The bridleway through Moor Wood
The bridleway through Moor Wood
The bridleway through Moor Wood
The bridleway through Moor Wood, after the junction
The same bridleway, approaching the road
From the gate I went left along a permissive path, which saved what would otherwise have been a slightly dangerous walk along the B482 (I walked the opposite way along the road from the gate once, and haven't wanted to repeat the experience). At the end of the permissive path I crossed the road and took a path that crossed a ploughed field to reach Widdenton Park Wood. The path continued through the wood, staying close to an edge of the wood on my right.
The permissive path next to the road
The path to Widdenton Park Wood
Widdenton Park Wood
Widdenton Park Wood