Pete's Walks - Cholesbury and Herberts Hole (page 5 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 usually refer to this as Lownde's Wood - that is the nearest name on the OS map, but the map also shows a woodland boundary after the path curves left, so it probably only becomes Lownde's Wood at that point. Anyway I followed the path through the woods for almost half a mile.
The path heading to Lownde's Wood
The path heading to Lownde's Wood
The path heading to Lownde's Wood
The path heading to Lownde's Wood
The path just before it leaves Lownde's Wood
On leaving the wood I went straight on across a pasture to a gate - I didn't go through it, but turned sharply right onto a path that went across a corner of the pasture to another gate. There had been a path going straight to this gate from where I left the wood, but that is not shown on the OS map so is not a right of way. The path then continued through a wood in more or less the same direction. After a while I went over a stile in a fence, I think at this point the wood becomes Lownde's Wood again. After walking through the wood for a quarter of a mile or so, I reached a road where I turned left.
The pasture after Lownde's Wood
The pasture after Lownde's Wood, after I crossed it and then turned sharply right
The path continuing through a wood (not named on the OS map)
The same path, now back in another part of Lownde's Wood
I followed the road for about a quarter of a mile, almost to the far side of Bray's Wood on my right. I then took a path that ran almost diagonally through the wood, as usual indicated by white arrows on trees. The wood was mainly deciduous, but there was one section of conifers. On the far side of the wood, the path turned left alongside the wood and dropped downhill with a fence to my right. In the field corner the path turned right, still with the fence on my right. After a few hundred yards it went through a gap in the hedge to my left to reach a lane by Three Gates Farm.
The road after I turned left on the edge of Lownde's Wood
Further along the road, with Bray's Wood on the right
The start of the path through Bray's Wood
The path through Bray's Wood
The same path continuing beside Bray's Wood
The same path after it turns right, heading to a lane near Three Gates Farm