Pete's Walks- West Wycombe and Moorend Common (page 6 of 6)
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 followed the path beside a hedgerow on my left, passing Fillingdon Farm and continuing down its drive for several hundred yards to reach a road on the edge of Piddington. Here I turned left to reach a junction with the A40. Carefully across this road, I continued the short distance down the drive to Hall Farm. Here a waymark indicated where a path went right, through the roughly surfaced yard to a stile. Over this the path followed a fence on my left uphill through a field of long grass. I then went through two gates either side of a track and continued more steeply uphill through a pasture, now with a hedge on my right. Through another gate in the field corner, the slope then gradually eased as the path continued beside a wire fence on my right through a huge field.
The path after I turned right, heading towards Fillingdon Farm
The path continuing from Fillingdon Farm
The start of the path from Ham Farm
View back from the path from Ham Farm
View towards Piddington, from the path from Ham Farm
The path from Ham Farm
The path from Ham Farm
Immediately after a fence came in on the right, I went over a stile and followed a broad track with that fence now on my right. At the end of the path I turned right down a bridleway, with Great Cockshoots Wood on my left. After a short distance I turned left onto a footpath that ran through the wood for about a third of a mile.
The footpath after I turned right, heading to Great Cockshoots Wood
The bridleway on the edge of Great Cockshoots Wood
The path through Great Cockshoots Wood
The path through Great Cockshoots Wood
On the far side of Great Cockshoots Wood the path joined a track through an area of rough grass. The wood on my right was soon replaced by a hedgerow, and ahead of me was a fine view along a valley towards High Wycombe. The path then continued steadily downhill through two corn fields to reach the A40, almost opposite the start of Toweridge Lane. I turned left and followed the main road back into West Wycombe, immediately turning left to return to the car park where I'd started.
The path continuing from Great Cockshoots Wood
The path continuing from Great Cockshoots Wood, High Wycombe in the distance
The path continuing from Great Cockshoots Wood, High Wycombe in the distance
The path continuing from Great Cockshoots Wood, heading to the A40 just outside West Wycombe
This was a wonderful day for a walk, very sunny the whole time and warm enough that I didn't need my winter jacket. I really enjoyed the walk, for all the usual reasons - there was a nice mix of woods and fields paths, plenty of ups and downs, and numerous nice views. It was also enjoyable because, as far as I can recall, I don't think I'd walked any part of the route since before the pandemic started in early 2020. In 2017 I said "At 11 miles it's a bit shorter than most of the walks I do", but nowadays it was just the right distance for me. I'd certainly be happy to do it again sometime.