Chiltern Walks: Nettlebed, Park Corner and Maidensgrove
View down to the Chiltern Way near the Five Horseshoes, Maidensgrove
Start & Finish: Nettlebed Kiln, The Old Kiln, Nettlebed, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 5AX
Distance: 8.5 km (5.3 miles)
Elevation change: +/- 159m
GPX File: get via Buy Me a Coffee
Other routes touched (walk): The Chiltern Way Southern Extension, The Chiltern Way, Shakespeare’s Way
Other routes touched (cycle): None
Pubs / Cafes on route: The Five Horseshoes, Maidensgrove (roughly half-way)
Map: OS Explorer Map (171) Chiltern Hills West, Henley-on-Thames and Wallingford
Links: Nettlebed, Nettlebed Kiln, Maidensgrove
This is part of a series of short circular walks in the Chilterns. The guidance below will help you navigate but don’t use it as a fully accurate turn-by-turn guide. Always take a map and/or a GPX route and prepare well for the weather and terrain.
For this walk we parked on The Old Kiln (road) where there’s a few on-street parking spaces. If those are taken there’s a few around the grass island around the wooden shelter between the Kiln and the main road. Before heading off on the walk take a few minutes to check out the information boards for the Kiln and the Pudding Stones next to the shelter.
From The Old Kiln take a left onto The Green, following it in an easterly direction towards Crocker End. After ~650m take a left to follow the Chiltern Way Southern Extension in a northerly direction until at path junction at the bottom of a valley at ~2.3km in. Take a right to follow the Chiltern Way up the hill to reach the road at the southern edge of Maidensgrove and Russel’s Water Commons. Take a right to follow the road to the Five Horseshoes pub, a great half-way point for a rest.
When leaving the Five Horseshoes, continue in a north-westerly direction for ~100m then take the first footpath on the left to descend the hill back to the Chiltern Way. Take a left then first right to follow the Chiltern Way in an westerly direction to Park Corner. At Park Corner take a left after Chears Farm to follow a road heading south, then the first paths on the left, then right to head south towards Nettlebed Common Wood and back to the start at Nettlebed.
Shakespeare’s Way Previous Section (north): Swyncombe & Park Corner
Shakespeare’s Way Next Section (south): Russell's Water, Pishill and Maidensgrove