🥾 Walk 257 - Burnham Beeches and Hedgerley

The weather forecast for Saturday 14th January was for a cold but clear day. I even packed my sun-glasses. Instead it was rather grey when twelve of us met up outside the café at Burnham Beeches.

We set off, heading west and then north-west, along a woodland path before taking another path heading north-east, towards Farnham Common. This brought us to the edge of the woods and on to Egypt Lane. Briefly we followed the lane northward before leaving it for another woodland footpath, heading north-east again, towards Hedgerley.

There was still no sign of the sun as we crossed Court Farm near Hedgerley. In fact a light rain began to fall. We continued our route through fields and woodland as we looped round Church Wood, Leith Grove and Hedgerley Green. We stopped to eat our packed lunches on a bank at the side of the footpath, not lingering too long as the rain was starting to get a bit heavier.

The next stop was the White Horse in Hedgerley. There was a marquee at the back of this lovely old pub, complete with some patio heaters, so we were quite cosy there. They were also serving mulled cider and other hot drinks. Guess what I had?

After our drink we continued our route, heading westward through fields and woodland, to Littleworth Common. The rain gradually gave way to some winter sunshine as we joined Shakespeare's Way, a long-distance path that from runs all the way from William Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon to the modern Globe Theatre in London. (146 miles in total.)

We followed this long-distance path for a short distance (2 miles) heading south-eastward through Dorney Wood, back into Burnham Beeches and to the café where we'd started the walk. See our route on Google Maps.

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