Pete's Walks - Christmas Common, Watlington, Fire Wood (page 3 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 followed the road for two or three hundred yards until a fingerpost indicated a bridleway going right. This crossed a yard at The Tree Barn (they sell Christmas trees) and continued down a hard-surfaced drive between farm buildings and cottages. Beyond these the bridleway continued between hedges either side for a few hundred yards to reach Greenfield Wood. The bridleway now dropped downhill and soon came to a track along a valley bottom where there was a bridleway junction. One bridleway went straight on, going uphill, but I turned left and followed the track along the valley bottom, still in Greenfield Wood.
The bridleway from Greenfield to Greenfield Wood
The bridleway from Greenfield to Greenfield Wood
The bridleway (right) from Greenfield to Greenfield Wood
The bridleway continuing through Greenfield Wood
The bridleway continuing through Greenfield Wood
The bridleway continuing through Greenfield Wood
The bridleway continuing through Greenfield Wood
After a few hundred yards I reached a bridleway junction where I turned left (the track continued straight on, but that's not a public right of way). This bridleway followed another track for a few yards, but then went straight on when the track turned left. It now rose uphill, the OS map showing that it was roughly along the boundary between Greenfield Wood and College Wood. After a while the bridleway turned right, so it was now in College Wood, and levelled out. The bridleway now very gradually descended over several hundred yards until it reached a glade, or open area, in a valley bottom where several paths or tracks met. The bridleway turned left here but I took a footpath going straight on, back into the wood (not along any track). There was a very short steep bit, then the path continued more gently uphill.
The bridleway after I turned left, initially along the boundary between Greenfield Wood and College Wood
The same bridleway after it turns right, now in College Wood
The same bridleway continuing through College Wood
The same bridleway continuing through College Wood
The same bridleway continuing through College Wood
The path through College Wood, just after passing through a glade in a valley bottom (where the bridleway goes left)
The path through College Wood