A new edition of my guidebook – Walking in the Chilterns – has been published by Cicerone and is available now at https://www.cicerone.co.uk/walking-in-the-chilterns…for more information visit http://www.steve-davison.co.uk/chilterns.html. Little more than an hour – yet a world away – from inner-city London, the rolling chalk hills of the Chilterns promise peace and tranquility amongst lush green countryside […]
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Head to Buckinghamshire for a Chiltern’s walk at Great Missenden. The village of Great Missenden, probably best known as the former home of the world-famous children’s author Roald Dahl, who lived and wrote here for over 35 years, lies tucked in the Misbourne Valley. The valley provided a relatively easy route through the Chilterns between
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Head to Stokenchurch for 6 mile wander – with shorter option – through some picturesque rolling Chiltern countryside visiting peaceful Radnage. Stokenchurch has long had good transport links, the ancient Ridgeway passes just to the north-west, while Collier’s Lane was once the main droving route. The later stagecoach route – the forerunner of the A40
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For our walk this month we head to the Buckinghamshire village of Penn with its attractive village pond – Widmer Pond – shared with neighbouring Tylers Green, just to the east of High Wycombe. The village has a history stretching back over a thousand years or more. By the 12th century the manor was held
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Head to Ibstone, to the west of High Wycombe close to the border with Oxfordshire, for a walk through typical Chiltern scenery. Ibstone, a small dispersed village that stretches north-south along a fairly lofty ridge some six miles to the west of High Wycombe, has a history stretching back to Saxon times when it was
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