Pete's Walks - Cadmore End, Horsleys Green, Twigside Bottom (page 1 of 4)
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 walk of about 7.7 miles on Friday, 1st November, 2024. It was a repeat of a walk that I first did at the end of September 2023. This description is largely 'cut and paste' from my original description of the route (there are a couple of places where I needed to make amendments to the original description, which I've now updated).
I parked along the start of Church Road in Cadmore End, near the school, and started walking at about 9.45am (Grid Reference SU 783927). I went back to the main road through the village and turned right. After going past the school on my left I took a path on that side (just after a bus stop), which passed a metal barrier and then followed a roughly surfaced track that soon went under the M40 motorway. After another hundred yards or so I took a path forking right from the track, which ran through part of Pound Wood for a short distance only to bring me back to the same track. I turned right, but very soon (100-200 yards) came to a waymark post on the left, where I turned left (another path went more sharply left here). This path soon left Pound Wood and crossed a freshly ploughed and harrowed field to reach Leygrove's Wood, where it continued northwards through the wood for about a third of a mile.
The road through Cadmore End (by the village school)
The track after I turned left from the road, heading toward the noisy M40
Further along the track (after going under the M40)
The footpath that cuts a corner off the track
Back on the same track
The start of the path after turning left from the track
The path continuing to Leygrove's Wood
The path continuing north through Leygrove's Wood
The path continuing north through Leygrove's Wood
The path continuing north through Leygrove's Wood
When I then came to a path crossroads in the wood I went 'straight on', the path then immediately turning half-left. After another quarter of a mile or so, the path left the wood and followed the right edge of a large field. It turned left on eventually reaching a field corner, then turned right after a hundred yards or so and followed a short hedge-lined track to reach Dell's Farm.
The same path after it goes half-left after crossing another footpath
The same path continuing through Leygrove's Wood
The same path continuing through Leygrove's Wood
The same path just before it leaves Leygrove's Wood
The path continuing from Leygrove's Wood (it turns left in the field corner)
Approaching Dell's Farm, after turning right
From Dell's Farm, the path continued half-right across a paddock and entered Dell's Wood. The path headed roughly north through the wood for about a quarter of a mile, following several white arrows painted on trees, soon dropping downhill into a valley.
Crossing a paddock at Dell's Farm to reach Dell's Wood
The footpath continuing through Dell's Wood
The footpath continuing through Dell's Wood
The footpath continuing through Dell's Wood
The footpath continuing through Dell's Wood