# 🥾 Walk 277 - Nettlebed

Twenty-four ramblers met at the four sided bus shelter in the centre of Nettlebed for a ten and a half walk, led by Kathy and Ann. The weather forecast was that there might be rain, so we decided to have the pub stop at the end of the walk and keep up a steady pace to hopefully avoid the rain.

We walked along the side of the Sue Ryder house, which was quite overgrown with a lot of stinging nettles, but we were unsure if we could go through the Sue Ryder property and out the gates to the road. We took the bridleway slightly to the right which was the old road to Bix, emerging from the woods we took another bridleway and followed the track to Bromsden Farm.

![Walking through Oxlands Bottom on our way to Bromsden Farm.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume20/images/oxlands_bottom.jpg)

We made our way into Tartary wood, where a few bluebells were left and continued onto Pissen woods part of the Grey Courts estate, further on is Grey's Court house and gardens, which we have visited on previous walks.

We joined the Chilterns way, eventually reaching Peppard Common where we stopped for our packed lunch. The weather forecast had changed and it was unlikely to rain until later, so a pub stop was a possibility.

![A long-horned highland cow lying in the shade.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume20/images/longhorned_highland_cow.jpg)

The Red Lion pub was quite busy, so we decided to walk onto the Unicorn, although when we got there we had a vote and the majority wanted to carry on with a drink stop in Nettlebed. We took the lane running beside Kingswood Common, leaving the lane to a footpath through Burnt Platt to Bear Wood leading into Bush Wood and to the back of Stoke Row.

We went back into the wood and down the hill to Newham Hill Bottom. We turned left and followed the lane to the end continuing on a bridleway to English Farm, where we were warned that we might spot an elephant; and we did!!

![Walking through a field by Greys Court Farm.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume20/images/greys_court_farm.jpg)

We took the footpath around the farm, to take another path across a field and took a track to Hollyberrywood House, reaching Nettlebed Church and back into the centre of Nettlebed, when we felt the first spots of rain, such great timing. See our route on Google Maps.

![Two rather wiry looking elephants at English Farm.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume20/images/english_farm_elephant.jpg)

*Thank you to Ann for writing up the walk, and to Christine for helping Kathy and Ann with the pre-walk.*

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