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The path only went a short distance into Hawing Wood before turning right into another wood that is not named on the OS map. The path rose uphill through the wood, but not too steeply. Immediately before this path left the wood at the top of the slope, I turned left onto another path - again this was new to me. It ran just inside the wood, with fields to my right, for about a quarter of a mile. Then when the wood extended to the right, it turned right to continue just inside the wood for a bit longer before turning half-left into the wood. After reaching a valley bottom, it gradually went up the opposite side. Near the top of the slope, I came to a path junction where I went slightly left (another path went more sharply left and dropped downhill). I soon came to an apparent fork where a clear path went straight on but the footpath went slightly right. The path then ran alongside a wooden fence on my left for a hundred yards or so, which brought me to a driveway, where I followed the fence round to the left, where the path ended at another drive. I was now in the vicinity of a property named Mallard's Court, just outside Stokenchurch.
The path as it turns right in Hawings Wood and enter an unnamed wood
The path after I turned left, immediately before the previous path left the wood
Further along the same path
Further along the same path
Further along the same path
Further along the same path
Further along the same path
Further along the same path, after going slightly left at a path junction, now near Mallard's Court, Stokenchurch
The path continuing near Mallard's Court, Stokenchurch
I turned left along the drive, which was heading to Hallbottom Farm. It descended slightly and curved left, then I took a path on the right that dropped downhill between fences - this was the start of a long path to Sprig's Alley that I'd only walked twice before, both times in the opposite direction. The path here was uneven and slippy in places, with my dodgy knees I had to take it very slowly. The path went through a gate and turned half-left, still dropping downhill between a hedge and a fence. The path then rose very slightly (I misremembered there being a steeper incline) across a grassy field to a stile in a hedgerow, then dropped downhill across the corner of a similar field to another stile.
The drive near Mallard's Court, Stokenchurch, heading to Hallbottom Farm
The path after I turned right from the drive to Hallbottom Farm
Further along the same path
Further along the same path
The same path approaching the woods
Over the stile I crossed a bridleway and continued straight on. The path was now inside a wood (I can't work out it's name from the OS map), and it went straight up a steep hillside. This was the biggest climb of this walk, and the steepest one I'd done for a while, but wasn't too bad, after gaining about a 100ft in elevation the gradient eased and it wasn't too far before it levelled out. Somewhere near the top of the hill the wood became Crowell Wood, and there was then a reasonably graded descent at an angle to the slope into a valley. In the valley bottom I crossed another bridleway and left the wood, the path now rising (slightly to the right) across a sloping meadow (to just left of a pile of logs). This whole path, and the view along the valley here, where the reasons I'd done this walk today - this is a lovely spot and I'd only been here twice before (on my Cowleaze Wood, Crowell, Stokenchurch walk).
The start (or continuation) of the path climbing straight up through the wood
Further along the path, still going uphill
The path now in Crowell Wood
The path descending through Crowell Wood
The path continuing up the opposite side of the valley
View right along the valley, from where the path leaves the meadow