Pete's Walks - Maidensgrove and Paradise Wood (page 1 of 3)
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.
I did this circular walk of about 5.6 miles on Saturday, 5th February 2022. It was a new route for me, though almost entirely on paths I'd walked many times before (the only exception was Warmscombe Lane, which I'd only walked once before).
Having parked beside a lane as it crosses Maidensgrove Common (Grid Reference SU717886), I set off about 11.30am and began by following the lane into Maidensgrove (so the larger part of the common was on my left). Where a lane came in on the right, I turned left along a private drive, soon passing a pond on my left. At the end of the drive I went straight on along a path into Pishillbury Wood, soon coming to a T-junction where I turned left. After a hundred yards or so I came to another junction, where I turned right (the OS map shows these two junctions as a path crossroads). I then followed this path through the wood for several hundred yards, and then through a tree belt, to reach a road on the edge of Stonor.
The lane across Maidensgrove Common as it enters Maidensgrove
The start of the private road at Maidensgrove, after I turned left
Pond on the edge of Maidensgrove Common
Just after entering Pishillbury Wood, approaching a path T-junction
Pishillbury Wood, after I turned left at the path T-junction
Pishillbury Wood, after I took the path going right
Pishillbury Wood
Pishillbury Wood
I turned right and followed the road into Stonor, soon passing the entrance to Stonor deer park on my left. I went straight on where a road came in on the right, and then after another hundred yards or so took a bridleway on the left. After passing between a couple of gardens it started going uphill through Almshill Wood, with the boundary fence of the deer park on my left. I always struggle a bit up here, and took it particularly slowly today as I'm still suffering the after affects of Covid-19.
The road into Stonor
Passing the deer park at Stonor
The start of the bridleway out of Stonor
The bridleway continuing uphill beside the fence of Stonor deer park
The bridleway continuing uphill beside the fence of Stonor deer park
The bridleway continuing uphill beside the fence of Stonor deer park
The bridleway continuing uphill beside the fence of Stonor deer park