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All rights reserved. www.walkingclub.org.uk The publisher cannot accept responsibility for any problems encountered by readers. Chesham to Great Missenden Through the Chilterns via Lee Common Start: Chesham station Finish: Great Missenden station Toughness: 3 out of 10 Length: 15.5km (9.6 miles). For a short Walk notes: This walk makes for an easy walk variation, see below Walk options. day out from London. It starts in Chesham, the hustle and bustle of which Time: 4 hours 45 minutes. For the whole is soon left behind for sloping fields, outing including trains, sights and meals woods and hamlets. The route follows the allow 8 hours 30mins. Chilterns Link, but diverts at Herberts Hole to take a higher, southerly path. It Transport: The Metropolitan Line then picks up the Chilterns Link again underground runs frequently to Chesham through to Ballinger Bottom and Lee (journey time: 54 minutes from Baker Common, and so to lunch in the charming Street). Take the underground train village called The Lee. After lunch the nearest to 9.50 am. Chesham is in walk continues on a gently undulating Transport for London zone 9, so a one- course, before a gentle climb through day travelcard out to zone 9, combined woods up to Frith Hill and down a steep with a single from Great Missenden to descent into Great Missenden. Amersham is an option. Trains back from Great Missenden to Marylebone run twice Current Issues: an hour (hourly on Sunday; journey time: Link to map of the impact of the proposed 45 minutes). If driving, it is recommended HS2 railway on this walk. that you leave your car at Chalfont and Latimer station and catch the Metropolitan Work has now commenced. Whilst work is line one stop to Chesham. The return in progress an alternative route has been from Great Missenden is two stops to written up. (The prior route for the Chalfont and Latimer station (London present has been left in the text and bound service). crossed out.) When the work has been completed the original route with OS Landranger Map: 165 necessary changes will be written up. OS Explorer Map: 181 Chiltern Society Map: 8. Walk options: Directions for the shorter Chesham, map reference SP 961016, is in variation are given at the end of the main Buckinghamshire, 17km south east of walk text. Aylesbury. Walk 4 Chesham to Great Missenden a) Shorter walk: You may reduce the After 500 metres where the field comes to length of the main walk by 6km (3.7 an end, head down into a lightly wooded miles) to 9.5km (5.9 miles) by following area, your direction 300 degrees. the main walk directions given until [5]. Then follow the directions before picking [2] After 80 metres you emerge from the up the main walk directions again at [9]. lightly wooded area to take a footpath marked by a footpath signpost arm Other options for this walk are available ‘Footpath – Pednor Road’ half left on the website of the Saturday Walkers’ diagonally down across a field (with Club www.walkingclub.org.uk in the ‘Time young trees), your direction 280 degrees. Out Country Walks 2’ section. In 120 metres cross a lane to go through a wooden kissing gate. Here the footpath WALK DIRECTIONS forks. Take the left fork marked by a Chiltern Link signpost, diagonally across a [1] [Numbers refer to the map.] field, in the same direction 280 degrees. Coming out of Chesham station go straight ahead for 30 metres and then In 250 metres go through a wooden turn left down Station Road. In 80 kissing gate and veer left up across a metres, at the bottom of Station Road, field, your direction due west. In 120 turn right onto The Broadway. After 40 metres go through a wooden kissing gate metres turn left at the war memorial. to the right of a metal fieldgate and turn After 100 metres cross over a zebra right along a lane, marked by a Chiltern crossing to the left of a roundabout. Link signpost. Continue straight up a tarmac path to enter a park. After 80 metres, just past a double wooden fieldgate, turn left up a bridleway, In 40 metres, just past a small brick marked by a metal bridleway signpost [3] building on your right, turn left along a (partially hidden by foliage in summer), car-wide tarmac path, your direction 210 your initial direction 280 degrees. degrees. Below on your left-hand side is Scottowe’s Pond. After 250 metres, at the In 80 metres the bridleway enters a end of the car-wide tarmac path, (with holloway and ascends more steeply. After the church of St Mary further ahead), 350 metres you pass by double wooden turn right up a tarmac path and follow a fieldgates to your left and right as the footpath signpost to Lower Pednor and bridleway levels out and runs parallel to a Chartridge, your direction 290 degrees. car-wide track on the left. (In muddy conditions it may be preferable to walk In 100 metres, immediately after passing along this track.) by the entrance to Chesham Bowling Club on your right, leave the tarmac path to go After 600 metres the bridleway comes out up a parallel earth footpath to the left. onto a car-wide track; continue straight In 80 metres you pass by a footpath ahead. In 550 metres you pass Barnwood signpost on your right with a footpath Farm on your right. Just beyond the farm arrow marked Chiltern Link and come out go to the left of a wooden gate to into a field. Continue ahead in the same continue along a tarmac lane. After 500 direction along the left-hand edge of the metres, at a T- junction with a lane, with field, with a wood to your left. (In muddy a white house (Little Hundridge Orchard) conditions you may prefer to veer right up on the left, turn right along the lane. the field and continue along the clearly defined path that runs about 40 metres In 60 metres ignore a footpath off to the parallel to the lower path.) left and continue slightly downhill. In 180 metres you pass by a footpath signpost on your left at the entrance to Redding’s Farm. After a further 30 metres turn right Copyright © 2004 - 2020 Saturday Walkers’ Club, used with permission. All rights reserved.2 Walk 4 Chesham to Great Missenden to enter a wood through a metal-chained to go along a fenced-in footpath on the squeezegate marked by a metal footpath lower right-hand edge of a field. signpost. Go down through the wood, your initial direction 30 degrees. In 200 After 300 metres you pass by a two- metres leave the wood via another metal- armed metal bridleway signpost on your chained squeezegate. [4] Turn left along left to enter a wood, now going slightly a car-wide earth track, your direction due downhill along the right-hand side of the west. wood, your direction 290 degrees. In 220 metres you come out onto a lane In 400 metres you emerge from the wood with a footpath signpost marked ‘Chiltern onto a car-wide track, (by a multi-armed Link’ on your right. Follow this signpost to signpost on your left), following the continue along the lane, passing by direction of the Chiltern Link. Further on Herbert’s Hole Cottage on your right. the bridleway curves round to the right to reach after 120 metres a T-junction In 40 metres turn right, marked by a directly in front of Rose Cottage, Chiltern Link signpost to your left, and Ballinger Bottom. Turn left along a cross over a stile to go up a fenced-in shingle car-wide track. After 50 metres footpath, your initial direction 10 degrees. you cross a road and go through a metal After 150 metres veer right (following a kissing-gate on the other side. black arrow) and then left. In 130 metres, the footpath joins a shingle lane. Follow a metal signpost for the Chiltern Link, passing under some mini pylon In 50 metres, where the lane curves right, electricity cables to enter a wood, your turn left through a wooden kissing gate direction 330 degrees. (left of a metal fieldgate), to pass by a pond (often dried up in summer) on your In 600 metres go througn a metal kissing- right. In 10 metres turn right through a gate to the right of a wooden fieldgate metal gate to go along a fenced-in and emerge from the wood into an open footpath on the right-hand edge of a field, field.