Chiltern Walks: Piddington and Bottom Wood
Between Horleys Green and Piddington
Start & Finish: The Dashwood Roadhouse, Old Oxford Road, Piddington, Bucks, HP14 3BH
Distance: 7.9 km (4.9 miles)
Elevation change: +/- 105m
GPX File: get via Buy Me a Coffee
Other routes touched (walk): None
Other routes touched (cycle): None
Pubs / Cafes on route: The Dashwood Roadhouse at the start and end
Map:
- OS Explorer Map (171) Chiltern Hills West, Henley-on-Thames and Wallingford
- OS Explorer Map (172) Chiltern Hills East
Links: Piddington
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 outside the Dashwood Roadhouse, formerly the Dashwood Arms. The pub is on the Old Oxford Road which runs parallel to the A40. There’s plenty of free parking spaces outside of the pub. From the pub cross over the road and follow the path that runs in a north-westerly direction along a farm track. After ~500m from the A40 you’ll meet a split in the path where you’ll continue along the farm track to the right. Continue following this track for 2km through Bottom Wood until you reach a field.
Instead of crossing into the field take a right and following the path in a north-westerly direction until you reach the end of Radnage Common Road. At this path junction take the path that’s straight ahead not the first left into the field. Continue for another 300m then take a left. Continue for another 350m, cross over Water End Road and continue until you’re back at the A40.
Carefully cross over the A40 and continue in a south-westerly direction through the wood for 400m. Take a left hand turn to follow a path through a field that takes you to Copse Drive in Horleys Green. At the end of Copse Drive take a right onto Bigmore Lane, than a left at onto Jones Way. When you reach the footpath at the entrance to the senior living estate take a right and follow the path south for 500m. Take a left to follow a path in an easterly direction for 2.2 km back to the Dashwood Roadhouse where you started.
This route is a variation on the Bottom Wood Walk with Peter Towersey published in the Chiltern Society magazine.
