{"id":"6984793c533dbb4b73118758","title":"Walk 511 Middle Assendon Shepherds Green And Bix","path":"walks/scrapbook/by-year/2022/volume-40-apr-to-jun-2022/walk-511-middle-assendon-shepherds-green-and-bix","contentMarkdown":"# 🥾 Walk 511 - Middle Assendon, Shepherds Green and Bix\n\nOn Saturday 23rd April, nine walkers including an assortment of visitors from other groups and some regulars joined us today for this enjoyable walk.\n\nWe took the quiet road up to Bix Bottom before turning left to pick up the Chiltern Way just before the ruined St James’s Church. We then headed up through Wellgrove Wood where it was lovely to see the pale green of the freshly emerged leaves on the Beech trees.\n\nWe continued on down to Crocker End with its pretty cottages and then walked through Lowercommon and Highmoor Common Woods.\n\n![Walking through Wellgrove Wood.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume40/images/wellgrove_wood.jpg)\n\nAt Lower Highmoor and Holly Grove woods we saw plenty of bluebells with their wonderful intense blue stretching out amongst the trees.\n\nWe took our lunch stop at Shepherd’s Green and then walked through the countryside leading to Greys Court where we stopped briefly.\n\nMore bluebells just beyond Greys Court were admired from a distance before progressing through farmland to Bix and Bix Common and before long we reached White Lane and back to the start of our walk where we said our goodbyes. See our route on Google Maps.\n\n![Plenty of bluebells on display at Lower Highmoor.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume40/images/lower_highmoor_bluebells.jpg)\n\n*Thank you to Julia from leading this walk and for for writing it up.*\n\n## 📸 Back to Volume 40\n\nReturn to volume index","contentHtml":"<h1>🥾 Walk 511 - Middle Assendon, Shepherds Green and Bix</h1>\n<p>On Saturday 23rd April, nine walkers including an assortment of visitors from other groups and some regulars joined us today for this enjoyable walk.</p>\n<p>We took the quiet road up to Bix Bottom before turning left to pick up the Chiltern Way just before the ruined St James’s Church. We then headed up through Wellgrove Wood where it was lovely to see the pale green of the freshly emerged leaves on the Beech trees.</p>\n<p>We continued on down to Crocker End with its pretty cottages and then walked through Lowercommon and Highmoor Common Woods.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume40/images/wellgrove_wood.jpg\" alt=\"Walking through Wellgrove Wood.\"></p>\n<p>At Lower Highmoor and Holly Grove woods we saw plenty of bluebells with their wonderful intense blue stretching out amongst the trees.</p>\n<p>We took our lunch stop at Shepherd’s Green and then walked through the countryside leading to Greys Court where we stopped briefly.</p>\n<p>More bluebells just beyond Greys Court were admired from a distance before progressing through farmland to Bix and Bix Common and before long we reached White Lane and back to the start of our walk where we said our goodbyes. See our route on Google Maps.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume40/images/lower_highmoor_bluebells.jpg\" alt=\"Plenty of bluebells on display at Lower Highmoor.\"></p>\n<p><em>Thank you to Julia from leading this walk and for for writing it up.</em></p>\n<h2>📸 Back to Volume 40</h2>\n<p>Return to volume index</p>\n"}