Pete's Walks - Cadmore End, Horsleys Green, Twigside Bottom (page 2 of 4)
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At the bottom of the valley I turned right onto a bridleway - this was the start of the first section of the route that was new to me. This ran very pleasantly through the wood along the valley bottom - some parts of the wood had been felled fairly recently, so it was brighter and less 'enclosed' than most woodland. The bridleway eventually left Dell's Wood and continued along a field boundary, still in the valley bottom, but after one or two hundred yards I turned left where a path crossed the bridleway. I was now back on a path I new, though I'd only walked this part of the path once before, in the opposite direction. The path led gently uphill across a field to reach Fillington Wood (I just caught a glimpse of a Muntjac's tail disappearing into the wood). After several hundred yards I went straight on where another path went right - this path was now more familiar to me, and at about the same point the wood became Thirds Wood.
The bridleway through Dell's Wood after I turned right in a valley bottom (this was new to me)
The bridleway through Dell's Wood
The bridleway through Dell's Wood
The bridleway continuing from Dell's Wood (I turned left after a couple of hundred yards)
The footpath after I turned left from the bridleway, heading to Fillington Wood
The path continuing through Fillington Wood
The path continuing through Thirds Wood (just after another path went right)
The path continuing through Thirds Wood
Just before I would otherwise have reached the A40 main road, I turned left along a bridleway, still in Thirds Wood. I followed the bridleway for about a third of a mile, crossing a drive or track at one point, and then turned left onto a crossing footpath. After a short distance this footpath left the wood and continued for several hundred yards between hedgerows on either side.
The bridleway through Thirds Wood after I turned left
The bridleway through Thirds Wood
The bridleway through Thirds Wood
The footpath after I turned left in Thirds Wood
The footpath continuing from Thirds Wood
When the bridleway crossed a street in Horsley's Green (there was a large new residential development to my left, on the site of the former Wycliffe centre) I turned right and followed the street to its end (this was new to me). I then turned right along a lane through the village. Just after a bend to the right, I took a path on the left that went down a surfaced track or drive (I was now on a path I'd walked once before, in the opposite direction). Through a gate, I went half-left across a corner of a paddock and then continued in the same direction across a large meadow to reach East Wood.
The lane in Horsleys Green
The start of the footpath from Horsleys Green, going left from the lane
The path continuing to East Wood