Start : Parking area on the western slopes of Watlington Hill just to the west of the centre of Christmas Common on Hill Road. Grid ref. SU710935.
(S/E) Exit the car park and turn right towards the centre of Christmas Common. At the first road junction turn right and continue for under 200 metres to join a footpath on your left (grid ref. SU714932) immediately before the road junction.
(1) Turn left and follow this path as it turns right and then take the left branch where it splits, to go between hedges and houses and joins a track.
(2) Turn right following the signs for PY3 and follow the path into woodland.
(3) Turn right and almost immediately bear left onto a descending path (signed SH4) through Shotridge Wood. Follow this path for just over a mile through woods to reach a junction with the Chiltern Way (grid ref. SU735934).
(4) Cross straight over the clearing, ignoring the path splitting off to the left (there is a way-post there), and instead bending round to the right following white arrows on trees up the steep hill.
(5) Enter the access road marked 'Brackendale'. The public footpath is on the left, but may be overgrown and the signpost missing. The public footpath then goes through a narrow gap in the wall between two houses. Follow this as it bends to the left and you arrive at a gate looking out into a V-shaped valley of fields. Turn right through the gate.
(6) At the bottom of the valley turn left, following the bottom until you get to the woods.
(7) Turn right here and follow the Oxfordshire Way as it passes through Fire Wood.
(8) Take the right fork at the possibly obscured way-post, going downhill rather than uphill, to reach a quiet tarmac road (grid ref. SU717928).
(9)Bear right along the road and almost immediately after about 50m and passing a couple of houses take the continuation of the Oxfordshire Way on your left.
(10) Take the first right behind the houses. This leads through the northern part of Queen Wood to a road (grid ref. SU714930).
(11) Turn right along this road and continue past the first junction.
(1) At the next junction, turn left and the start of the walk is a short distance along Hill Road on your left. (S/E)