Pete's Walks- Maidensgrove and Greys Court (page 3 of 5)
The path through the car park was clear, then I passed the booth were visitors were paying to see round Greys Court and continued along a drive, passing the grand house on my right. After passing some outbuildings, a short path left the drive on the right to reach a lane(Rocky Lane), where I turned right. After a few hundred yards I turned left, following the right edge of a meadow or pasture to reach a gate leading into a wood. I'm not sure if this section of wood is part of Sam's Wood, but after going through a second gate I was certainly in Sam's Wood (named on the OS map). The path continued through the middle of the wood to reach the far (southern) side, where I turned right. The path left the wood and ran between a hedgerow and the fence of a paddock on my right. The path then crossed a paddock or meadow to a gate (it seems to have been re-routed since I first did this walk in 2015, as then it continued along the left edge of the field before running between fences around the edge of a cottage's garden). I then turned left to reach the attractive hamlet of Shepherd's Green.
View from Greys Court
Greys Court (the wall in the ditch is a 'ha-ha')
Rocky Lane
The start of the path from Rocky Lane to Sam's Wood
The path from Rocky Lane to Sam's Wood
The path continuing through Sam's Wood
The path from Sam's Wood to Shepherd's Green
The path from Sam's Wood to Shepherd's Green
Shepherd's Green (I turned right here)
I kept to the right edge of the green here for a hundred yards or so (beside a gravel drive most of the way) and followed a short track through bushes in the corner. Within a few yards I came to a path junction, where I turned right. The path headed north, running gently downhill beside a hedge on my right. In the valley bottom it entered Overland's Wood, a mainly beech wood. Beyond the wood the path continued between wooden fences either side and passed a cottage before reaching another section of Rocky Lane, where I turned left.
Shepherd's Green
The start of the path going north from Shepherd's Green
View right, from the path going north from Shepherd's Green
The path going north from Shepherd's Green
The path going north from Shepherd's Green